Flashcard sets with a 'henry david thoreau' term meaning 'a transcendentalist and friend of emerson. he lived alone on walden pond with only $8 a year from 1845-1847 and wrote about it in walden. in his essay, "on civil disobedience," he inspired social and political reformers because he had refused to pay a poll tax in protest of slavery and the mexican-american war, and had spent a night in jail. he was an extreme individualist and advised people to protest by not obeying laws (passive resistance).'

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