While living by Walden Pond in 1846, he was arrested for refusing to pay his poll tax
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Resistance to Civil Government (1849), Henry David Thoreau  The United States went to war against Mexico in May 1846. That July, while living at Walden Pond, Thoreau refused to pay his poll tax as a protest ... As a result, the local constable arrested him, and he spent the night in the Concord jail.
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Henry David Thoreau Arrested For Nonpayment of Poll Tax  History ...  Jul 14, 2012 ... In July of 1846, while on his way to Concord to run an errand, Henry David Thoreau was arrested by the local sheriff for failure to pay a poll tax. ... The tax that Thoreau refused to pay was a local one, not connected to the ... Thoreau, who was living in his cabin at Walden pond at the time of the arrest, was...
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Henry Thoreau and 'Civil Disobedience' - The Thoreau Reader  [3] Thoreau declined to pay the tax and so, in July 1846, he was arrested and ... I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to ... 1846 imprisonment for refusing to pay a poll tax that violated his conscience. ... [15] Prior to his arrest, Thoreau had lived a quiet, solitary life at Walden, an isolated pond in...
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Concord Jail : Mapping Thoreau Country  In July 1846, just over a year into his sojourn in Walden Woods, Thoreau was walking into town when he was ... He again recounted his arrest in Walden, which he also began to write while living at the Pond. ... He had, at this point, refused to pay his poll tax for approximately six years, which suggests that his non-payment...
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J! Archive - Show #2677, aired 1996-04-02  Go Ba Soup, a specialty of this country, makes a sizzling sound when poured .... While living by Walden Pond in 1846, he was arrested for refusing to pay his...
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The Peasants' Revolt 1381  This greatly affected the English peasants because there was a labour shortage ... In 1377, John of Gaunt imposed a new tax, the Poll (head) Tax, that was to ... by a number of rebellious priests who preached against the Church and the barons. ... of Canterbury had arrested John Ball, and confined him in Maidstone Castle.
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jeopardy/3138_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  JAILHOUSE | While at Walden Pond, Thoreau was arrested by constable Sam Staples & spent a night in this city's jail | Concord. right: Wrong: Triple Stumper.
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Thoreau's First Year at Walden in Fact & Fiction - The Thoreau Reader  Below: Smith portraying Thoreau, at Walden's cabin replica - photo by Carol Haines ... After all, it was Emerson's land that Thoreau was living on  to be precise, .... to be going nowhere until Ralph Waldo Emerson purchased fourteen acres on the ... Within a year he had invited Thoreau to live there, build a house and write,...
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Henry David Thoreau > By Individual Philosopher > Philosophy  Philosophy: By Individual Philosopher > Henry David Thoreau. ... Jr. He adhered to no recognizable political position, but his work to some extent ... after seven full drafts and re-writes), he published "Walden, or Life in the Woods", his ... By far the most famous is "Walden" (subtitled "Life in the Woods"), published in 1854, his...
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jeopardy/2645_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  FAMOUS NAMES | In 1628 the British took this founder of Quebec prisoner, holding him in England until 1633 | Champlain. right: Jerry. Wrong: Value: $1200.
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Aaron Burr arrested for treason - Feb 19, 1807 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, Aaron Burr arrested for treason on Feb 19, 1807. ... in Alabama for treason and sent to Richmond, Virginia, to be tried in a U.S. circuit court. ... In the history of the 200-lap, 500-mile race, which was first run at Florida's...
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CommonLit | Where I Lived and What I Lived For  "Thoreau's Cabin, Walden Pond" is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND ... Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American author, essayist, poet, ... his two years spent living in the wilderness near Walden Pond in Massachusetts. ... Page 2 ... If we do not get out sleepers,15 and forge rails, and devote days and nights to the...
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Aaron Burr Speaks | The forgotten founder, in his own words.  Not one to defend himself publicly, he remains much maligned and little understood. Our agenda: ... He wrote of his situation to his son-in-law Joseph Alston: In New York I am to be disenfranchised, and in New Jersey hanged. You will...
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Thoreau's First Year at Walden in Fact & Fiction - The Thoreau Reader  In Walden itself, Thoreau declares, I am naturally no hermit. ... [7] By the second year, Emerson was too busy preparing a book of poetry for .... The thirteen-day voyage up the Concord and Merrimack was chronicled by each .... It's no wonder that Thoreau wrote in August of 1845, I will not plants beans another summer.
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I Found My Muse at Walden Pond - The Thoreau Reader  I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. ... [3] When Thoreau wrote, "Our life is frittered away by detail," he could have been ... had wise advice from his two-year excursion in the woods at Walden Pond: "Simplicity,...
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Concord, MA Visitor Information | Concord Chamber of Commerce  Authors' Ridge Bedford Street, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is the final resting place of Louisa May ... Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and ... Special events include Family Trees: A Celebration of Children's Literature, ... Learn about Thoreau's life beyond Walden Pond, and explore how his...
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Politicians quoting Coleridge on water get the meaning wrong ...  Jan 21, 2011 ... The 19th-century English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge could never have guessed how he'd be conscripted into California's partisan water...
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Walden - Wikipedia  Walden is a book by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, .... The Pond in Winter: Thoreau describes Walden Pond as it appears during the winter. He claims to have sounded...
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January 14 | This Day in U.S. Military History  Jan 14, 2014 ... His son Benedict moved to Newport, and was governor of the ... He was employed in a drug shop at Norwich until 1762, when he moved to New Haven and established himself in business as druggist and ... A few days later Arnold captured St. John's. .... He lived extravagantly, and became involved in debt.
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Thoreau's First Year at Walden in Fact & Fiction - The Thoreau Reader  With those words, written in his journal, the 27-year-old Henry Thoreau ... After all, it was Emerson's land that Thoreau was living on  to be precise, ... But his most frequent visitor was probably his best friend, Ellery Channing. ... Waldo Emerson purchased fourteen acres on the shore of Walden Pond in the summer of 1844.
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Direct Essays - Thoreau Walden Walden Pond  He lived in a hut off the shore of Walden Pond in Massachusetts between 1845 ... lived from July 4, 1845, to September 6, 1847, in the cabin he had built on the...