This excerpt is from an essay published in 1849.
I have paid no poll tax in six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night.
-Henry David Thorieau, Civil Disobedience, 1849
How did Thoreau justify this act of civil disobedience?
A.
He disagreed with increasing taxes for the lower class.
B.
He disagreed of 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.
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