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Why was Henry David Thoreau put in jail, prompting him to write the essay “Civil Disobedience”?

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the answer is D) He refused to pay a poll tax as a protest against the Mexican-American War.

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He was put in jail because of a tax that he refused to pay. He was against military involvement in Mexico and against slavery, and the tax would help both of those.
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