Considering "civil disobedience," why did both thoreau and martin luther king, jr. engage in acts of civil disobedience? to take a stand against government taxation to protest government policies they believed were unjust to protest slavery and the mexican-american war to take a stand against unfair laws in the 1950s and ‘60s

The correct answer of the given option is #2 to protest government policies they believed were unjust

to protest government policies they believed were unjust.

Civil disobedience is the active refusal to follow rules or laws that have implemented by the government. Most of the time, people who engage in civil disobedience do so because they believe the law or the government to be unjust or to lack legitimacy. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) engaged in acts of civil disobedience to show his disapproval of slavery, and the Mexican-American War. On the other hand, Martin Luther King Jr. engaged in these acts in order to take a stand against laws that were discriminatory against black people in the 1950s and 1960s.