Compromise was becoming impossible

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try to understand in the context of the late 1840s into the 1850s. Henry David Thoreau published this in 1849 (partly in response to Polk's actions in starting the Mexican War), but it became more widely read and quoted in the 1850s in the wake of the Compromise Bill to which many people objected. What does his essay argue for?

Why do you think, from this reading, that people began to lose faith in their government and argued that compromise was becoming impossible? Lastly, how do you think Thoreau's identification as a Transcendentalist influenced his thinking regarding his ideas of Civil Disobedience?

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