I have paid no poll tax in six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night.%0D%0A-Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849%0D%0A%0D%0AUse the except to answer the following question.%0D%0A%0D%0AHow did Thoreau justify this act of civil disobedience?%0D%0A%0D%0A(1 point)%0D%0AResponses%0D%0A%0D%0AHe disagreed with increasing taxes for the lower classes.%0D%0AHe disagreed with increasing taxes for the lower classes.%0D%0A%0D%0AHe disapproved of the increasing taxes to fund mainly urban areas.%0D%0AHe disapproved of the increasing taxes to fund mainly urban areas.%0D%0A%0D%0AHe objected to tax money being used to pay for the U.S.-Mexican War.%0D%0AHe objected to tax money being used to pay for the U.S.-Mexican War.%0D%0A%0D%0AHe refused to provide tax money to a government that supported the Civil War.

Thoreau justified this act of civil disobedience by refusing to provide tax money to a government that supported the Civil War.