Henry david thoreau was an american author and leader of the transcendentalist movement. in 1846, thoreau was placed in jail because he had refused to pay his taxes. he stated that he did not want to pay taxes because he could not support certain policies of the u. s. government. these included

  His opposition to the Mexican-American War and slavery.

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  He was an American essayist, philosopher, poet, abolitionist, and historian.

  On July of 1846, he was asked by the local tax collector, Sam Staples, to pay a six years debt of poll taxes. Thoreau refused to pay because of his opposition to the War and slavery. Because of that, he spent a night in jail.

  This had a great impact on him and two years later he published "Civil Disobedience", an essay that sustains that individuals should not permit governments to overrule their consciences.

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slavery and participation in the Mexican-American War.

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