The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

question 18

Multiple Choice

The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"Unjust laws exist;shall we be content to obey them,or shall we endeavor to amend them,and obey them until we have succeeded,or shall we transgress them at once? Men generally,under such government as this,think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them.They think that,if they should resist,the remedy would be worse than the evil.But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil.It makes it worse...Why does it not cherish its wise majority? Why does it cry and resist before it is hurt? …"
Henry David Thoreau,"Civil Disobedience," 1848
-Henry David Thoreau's ideology as expressed here could best have been used to justify the actions of

• A) Northerners resisting the Fugitive Slave provisions of the Compromise of 1850.
• B) Native Americans resisting white encroachment on their lands.
• C) Abolitionists who felt that violence was a legitimate means to combat slavery.
• D) Southerners who lobbied for secession in the wake of the election of 1860.

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