Hortensia's Protest
2. Research a nineteenth- or twentieth-century example of refusal to pay a tax as a form of political protest. What was being protested? was the goal of protest achieved?
I am obviously going to choose Henry David Thoreau. He is a transcendentalist of the 19th century, and one of the most famous tax protester. He was protesting the Mexican American War, because he felt that it was spreading slavery. He didn't feel like he should pay for, nor support a cause he didn't believe in. As a result, he was jailed, and in jail is where he wrote Civil Disobedience. The goal of the protest wasn't exactly achieved because the war still went on, but as a result of his essay, his message was spread, and it influenced many of the great leaders today.
Sources
1. Urban, Christopher, English
2. Cox, Kathryn, APUSH
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