The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

question 26

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
-Reformers of the 1830s-1840s who agreed to some extent with Thoreau's beliefs as expressed in the excerpt

• A) were disillusioned with the U.S. and formed utopian societies.
• B) were radicals and thrown in jail for their demonstrations.
• C) left the U.S. disillusioned and went to Europe.
• D) chose to run for political office in hopes of changing the government.

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