I have paid no poll tax in six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night.
-Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849
Use the excerpt to answer the following question.
How did Thoreau justify this act of civil disobedience?
a He disagreed with increasing taxes to fund lower classes
b He disapproved of the increasing taxes to fund mainly urban areas
c He objected to tax money being used to pay for the U.S.-Mexican war
d He refused to provide tax money to a government that supported the Civil War