Question

Henry David Thoreau spent:

one night in jail for failure to pay taxes.
three nights in jail for attempting to steal bread.
one week in jail for paying his taxes late.
one year in jail for attacking a government official.

Answer 1

Henry David Thoreau spent one night in jail for failure to pay taxes. Thoreau's brief incarceration for refusing to pay taxes was a key event that influenced his essay "Civil Disobedience," in which he articulated his belief in the moral obligation to resist unjust laws, particularly those that supported slavery and the Mexican-American War.