Question

Inspired by the writer’s experience of being arrested when he refused to pay a $1 poll tax as a protest against the Mexican War,________ by ________was published in 1849.
First blank choices are
civil disobedience
Walden
self reliance
nature



Next blank choices are
Ralph waldo Emerson
Amos Bronson Alcott
Henry David Thoreau
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Answer 1

Inspired by the writer’s experience of being arrested when he refused to pay a $1 poll tax as a protest against the Mexican War, Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau was published in 1849.

Henry David Thoreau's argument in the “Civil Disobedience” was that the citizens of a nation need to disobey the laws implemented by the state if the laws are unjust. He speaks about his experience when he protested against slavery and the Mexican War by refusing to pay taxes. He adds that there are two types of laws, one is made by God and the other by the people. The laws made by God is about humanity and is higher than the laws made by men. He adds that if the laws made by men prove to be unjust and are against humanity then the people should have the right to disobey them.

Answer 2

The correct answer for the first blank is the first option. Henry David Thoreau is the right answer for the second blank. Inspired by the writer's experience of being arrested when he refused to pay a $1 poll tax as a protest against the Mexican War, Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau was published in 1849. Thoreau was an American transcendentalist.