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It passed in the House but failed in the Senate.

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What is a proposed law that prohibited slavery in any lands won from Mexico?

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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 Historians do not cite the "Proviso" to the secession of the Southern states in 1860 to 1861.


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The Wilmot Proviso proposal was to prevent the introduction of slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico


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