Answer and Explanation
Protesting the Mexican-American War
Battle of Churubusco, 1847
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Question
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"When a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army...Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.."
Which of the following individuals wrote the quote above in protest of the U.S. involvement in the Mexican-American War?
"When a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army...Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.."
Which of the following individuals wrote the quote above in protest of the U.S. involvement in the Mexican-American War?
(A) Abraham Lincoln
(B) Henry Clay
(C) William Lloyd Garrison
(D) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(E) Henry David Thoreau
(B) Henry Clay
(C) William Lloyd Garrison
(D) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(E) Henry David Thoreau
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