Question

Q 6
Read the excerpt below and answer the question that follows:
I have paid no poll tax in six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night.
-Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849

How did Thoreau justify this act of civil disobedience?

(1 point)

• He disagreed with increasing taxes for the lower classes.

• He disapproved of increasing taxes to fund mainly urban areas.

• He objected to tax money being used to pay for the U.S.-Mexican War.

• He refused to provide tax money to a government that supported the Civil War.
Q7


What was the impact of the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848?
(1 point)

• It led to the formation of the Republican Party.

• It publicized the need for an expansion of women's rights.

• It promoted the concept of Manifest Destiny.

• It revealed the poor treatment of Southern slaves.

Answer 1

**Q6:** Thoreau justified his act of civil disobedience by stating that he objected to tax money being used to pay for the U.S.-Mexican War.

**Q7:** The impact of the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 was that it publicized the need for an expansion of women's rights.