RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
WOMENS SUFFRAGE
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Question
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This author went to jail for his refusal to pay taxes that funded the Spanish American War.
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Henry David Thoreau
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Henry Longfellow
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Walt Whitman
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Henry Melville
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Thoreau had already stopped paying his taxes in protest against slavery. The local tax collector had ignored his tax evasion, but decided to act when Thoreau publicly condemned the U.S. invasion and occupation of Mexico. In July 1846, the sheriff arrested and jailed Thoreau for his tax delinquency.
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