Henry david thoreau went to jail rather than pay a poll tax because of his opposition to

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Henry david thoreau went to jail rather than pay a poll tax because of his opposition to

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Cheyanne Kaiser · Answer 1

Thoreau, who believed this poll tax supported the Mexican-American war and the expansion of slavery into the Southwest, had stopped paying this tax in 1842 but the sheriff, Sam Staples, failed to take action against him for several years.