It passed the House but failed to pass in the Senate.
The Wilmot Proviso was an amendment to an appropriations bill that President Polk sought Congress to pass in order to fight the war with Mexico. It was David Wilmot, a Democrat from Pennsylvania who made the proviso that wpould ban slavery in any territories the US obtained from the war with Mexico. The House of Representatives would pass it however the Senate would not. Historians do not cite the "Proviso" to the secession of the Southern states in 1860 to 1861.
The Wilmot Proviso proposal was to prevent the introduction of slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico
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Senator Jesse Thomas of Illinois then proposed the so-called Thomas Proviso: If the north would admit Missouri as a slave state, the South would agree to outlaw slavery above a line extending from the southern border of Missouri to spanish territtory. The Thomas Proviso did pass.
False.
What was the unstated goal of the Wilmot Proviso?
Southerners opposed the Wilmot Proviso. This is because the Wilmot Proviso established peace with Mexico, and the land that Mexico owned was in the South.
My rental agreement includes the proviso that I cannot smoke in the house.
I see no reason for not including the Baltic proviso in this case.
The proviso would limit the spread of slavery- NoVaNeT :]
The proviso would limit the spread of slavery- NoVaNeT :]
No in proviso west you could wear what you want