It's TREASON not sedition

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40. Facts

Philip Vigil and John Mitchell were convicted of treason for their involvement in the Whiskey Rebellion 1791-1794.

John Fries, the leader of Fries' Rebellion, was convicted of treason in 1800 along with two accomplices.

Governor Thomas Dorr, 1844, was convicted of treason for leading the Dorr Rebellion.

Hipolito Salazar, hanged on April 9, 1847. Convicted of treason for rebelling against the military occupation of New Mexico in the Taos Revolt during the Mexican-American War.

Abolitionist John Brown was convicted in 1859 of treason and executed.

Aaron Dwight Stevens took part in John Brown's raid and was executed in 1860 for treason.

William Bruce Mumford was convicted of treason and hanged in 1862. He tore down a United States flag.

Walter Allen was convicted of treason on September 16, 1922 for taking part in the 1921 Miner's March against the coal companies.

Max Stephan, a German-born Detroit tavern keeper, was convicted of treason on July 2, 1942. He took in a Luftwaffe pilot who had escaped from a Canadian POW camp.

Hans Max Haupt, Walter Otto Froehling, Otto Richard Wergin, Erna Emma Haupt, Lucille Froehling and Kate Martha Wergin were convicted of treason on November 24, 1942 for giving aid and comfort to German saboteur Herbert Hans Haupt.

Martin James Monti, United States Army Air Forces pilot, convicted of treason for defecting to the Waffen-SS in 1944.

Douglas Chandler was convicted of treason in 1947 for defecting to Germany during World War II.

Nazi propagandist Robert Henry Best was convicted of treason on April 16, 1948.

Iva Toguri D'Aquino - "Tokyo Rose" - was convicted of treason in 1949. She was a disc jockey and radio personality on English-language radio broadcasts transmitted by Radio Tokyo during WWII.

Mildred Gillars, also known as "Axis Sally", convicted of treason on March 8, 1949. She was an announcer with the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft, German State Radio during the war.

Herbert John Burgman was convicted in 1949 of treason during WWII for spreading Nazi propaganda.

Tomoya Kawakita was convicted of treason in 1952 for alleged abuse of American POWs in Japan during WWII.