The Wilmot Proviso proposed banning all slavery from any territories that were acquired from Mexico, including south Texas and New Mexico. The bill passed the House of Representatives, but the southern majority in the Senate failed to pass it. An attempt to put the Wilmot Proviso in the treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo also failed.
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It had strong Northern support.
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land acquired from Mexico
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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.
Wilmot's Proviso brought the future of slavery to everyone.
The Wilmot Proviso qualifies as such. It however, was one of the leading causes of the American Civil War (1861-1865)
The Wilmot Proviso (1846) prohibited slavery on any land acquired from Mexico.
Because the Wilmot Proviso sought to halt the extension of slavery in the western territories
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Congressman Wilmot of Pennsylvanis who introduced the bill.
Southerners.
Slaveholders opposed the Wilmot Proviso because Slaveholders argued that slaves were property by the Constitution
Wilmot Provisio tried to end slavery in the Mexico section