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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 except to answer the following question.
How did Thoreau justify this act of civil disobedience?
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Responses
He disagreed with increasing taxes for the lower classes.
He disagreed with increasing taxes for the lower classes.
He disapproved of the increasing taxes to fund mainly urban areas.
He disapproved of the increasing taxes to fund mainly urban areas.
He objected to tax money being used to pay for the U.S.-Mexican War.
He objected to tax money being used to pay for the U.S.-Mexican War.
He refused to provide tax money to a government that supported the Civil War.