The wilmot proviso
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.
It had strong Northern support.
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wilmot proviso
Introduced by David Wilmont, the wilmont proviso proposed to ban slavery in any territory gained from, or after the Mexican American War.
The US gained territory from the war, and the Wilmot Proviso proposed a way to settle the dispute over slavery in the territory.
What was the unstated goal of the Wilmot Proviso?
Jefferson was dead and gone when it was proposed, but he would have opposed it.
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.
It was proposed in 1846.
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)
David Wilmot, a Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania, proposed the Wilmot Proviso in 1846, which sought to ban slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico as a result of the Mexican-American War. The proviso was never passed into law but fueled tensions over the expansion of slavery in the United States.
David Wilmot, a Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania, proposed the Wilmot Proviso in 1846 which stated that slavery would not be allowed in any territory acquired from Mexico.
The Wilmot Proviso (1846) prohibited slavery on any land acquired from Mexico.