I have paid no poll tax in six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night.

Question

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?
(1 point)
• He disagreed with increasing taxes for the lower classes.
• 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 refused to provide tax money to a government that supported the Civil War.

Answer 1

I have paid no poll tax in six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night.

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