Answer: The correct answer is : D) The Mexican-American War
Explanation: Resistance to civil government deals with the role that the government should play in people's lives and explains when a person has a moral obligation to disobey the law. Thoreau believes that governments are useless and selfish. At the end of his essay Thoreau concludes that the government has not done enough to properly represent the people. He refused to pay his taxes, six years behind to protest slavery and his opposition to the war between Mexico and the United States.
