Even though we don’t hear about it as much civil disobedience is still a form of protest today. Yet it is not always shown since it is never as interesting as violent protest. By the end of this essay the reader should understand the history behind civil disobedience/nonviolent protest and how it is being used today. From Thoreau to the Bundy ranch case nonviolence protest was used.
In 1846 one of the earlier recorded acts of civil disobedient was performed by a man by the name of Henry D. Thoreau. Thoreau was imprisoned for one night in July 1846 for not paying his poll tax (Wal Web). He was suppose to stay in jail until he paid a fine, which he declined. But one of his relatives paid for it and got him out of jail. Thoreau did not pay his poll tax because he did not support the Mexican war. Also by him being in jail for one night he left an everlasting effect on civil disobedience.
The Mexican war was one of the reasons that got Thoreau in trouble for not paying his poll taxes. For starters Thoreau did not support the Mexican War because he viewed it as a way to spread slavery (Thoreau web). He believed that the only reason why America wanted to go to war with Mexico was to have a …show more content…
The march that they took was 241 miles from the city of Sabarmati to the coastal town of Dandi (history2 Web). Gandhi and his followers were protesting the tax that the British put on the salt. This is kind of like the Boston tea party. Where a group of men boarded ships and destroyed British tea to show they did not approve of the tax placed on the tea. But instead of wanting to destroy the goods the marchers wanted to go to the beach and pick up clumps of salt and defy the British policy. When they got to the beach, they found that the police crushed all the salt clumps into the mud (history2 web). Yet that did not stop Gandhi and his followers, they were still able to reach down into the mud and pick out salt clumps
In 1846 one of the earlier recorded acts of civil disobedient was performed by a man by the name of Henry D. Thoreau. Thoreau was imprisoned for one night in July 1846 for not paying his poll tax (Wal Web). He was suppose to stay in jail until he paid a fine, which he declined. But one of his relatives paid for it and got him out of jail. Thoreau did not pay his poll tax because he did not support the Mexican war. Also by him being in jail for one night he left an everlasting effect on civil disobedience.
The Mexican war was one of the reasons that got Thoreau in trouble for not paying his poll taxes. For starters Thoreau did not support the Mexican War because he viewed it as a way to spread slavery (Thoreau web). He believed that the only reason why America wanted to go to war with Mexico was to have a …show more content…
The march that they took was 241 miles from the city of Sabarmati to the coastal town of Dandi (history2 Web). Gandhi and his followers were protesting the tax that the British put on the salt. This is kind of like the Boston tea party. Where a group of men boarded ships and destroyed British tea to show they did not approve of the tax placed on the tea. But instead of wanting to destroy the goods the marchers wanted to go to the beach and pick up clumps of salt and defy the British policy. When they got to the beach, they found that the police crushed all the salt clumps into the mud (history2 web). Yet that did not stop Gandhi and his followers, they were still able to reach down into the mud and pick out salt clumps