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American author and transendentalist Henry David Thoreau was jailed in 1846 for failing to pay his taxes. He refused to pay, he said, because he could not support certain federal government policies. These policies included

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he was arrested for not paying a poll tax. the laws he disagreed with were slavery and the Mexican American war

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