Henry David Thoreau - "Civil Disobedience"

Question 5 of 14 • Crowley Credit Recovery English III A

Considering "Civil Disobedience," why did both Thoreau and Martin Luther King, Jr. engage in acts of civil disobedience?

Answer

to take a stand against government taxation

to protest government policies they believed were unjust

to protest slavery and the Mexican-American War

to take a stand against unfair laws in the 1950s and ‘60s

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