Question

Martin Luther King Jr. was influenced by Thoreau’s "Civil Disobedience" because _____.

Answer 1

Answer:

it explained methods for nonviolent protest

Explanation:

Henry David Thoreau wrote Civil Disobedience, a document where he exemplifies how he protested against taxes and slavery in Mexico by not paying his taxes, he wrote that civilians should disobbey the law if they felt like it was not fair or just, based on this pacific resistance and this examples of civil disobedience, Martin Luther King had the inspiration to help and inspire his fellow americans into civil disobedience in a pacific protests against segregation and racism.

Answer 2

Martin Luther King Jr. was influenced by Thoreau’s "Civil Disobedience" because it explained methods for nonviolent protest. Option C is correct.

Thoreau’s "Civil Disobedience" was a blueprint for methods of nonviolent protest.

Thoreau wrote Civil Disobedience in 1849, amidst slavery issues and the Mexican-American war. He wrote it right after being imprisoned in Concord, Massachusetts charged with refusing to pay his taxes.

Thoreau claimed in the "Civil Disobedience" that the government was not fair, and democracy only favored and protected the majority.

He was reluctantto pay his taxes as part of the Civil Disobedience, since the Mexican American war would give way to an expansion of slavery he desagreed with.

Thus, Thoreau  was regarded to as the pioneer of nonviolent methods to protest against the government and that inspired Martin Luther King Jr.