The Wilmot Proviso was an unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War.
David Wilmot, a Pennsylvania Congressman.
The Wilmot Proviso, named for Congressman David Wilmot of Pennsylvania, passed the House twice, but failed in the Senate. It also failed in the effort to be included in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
In 1846, David Wilmot, a Congressman from Pennsylvania, submitted the Wilmot Proviso, which aimed to ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico as a result of the Mexican-American War. The proposal sparked intense debate over the expansion of slavery in the United States and highlighted the deepening sectional divides between the North and South. Although the Wilmot Proviso was never passed, it played a significant role in the political discourse leading up to the Civil War.
land acquired from Mexico
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James Wilson and Gouvernor Morris, both of Pennsylvania. No other state supported this proposal.
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The difference between a research proposal and a project proposal is that a research proposal may lead to a project proposal eventually. A research proposal involves a plan for learning about something, a project proposal involves money for doing something.
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