MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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created a compromise by dividing the territories into free states and slave states.
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made it easier for slaveholders to retrieve an enslaved person
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prevented Congress from banning slavery in any territory gained from Mexico
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prohibited slavery in any territory gained from Mexico.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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 . The conflict over the Wilmot Proviso was one of the major events leading to the American Civil War.
Detailed explanation-2: -Laws require the approval of both houses of Congress, however. The Senate, equally divided between free states and slave states could not muster the majority necessary for approval. Angrily the House passed Wilmot’s Proviso several times, all to no avail. It would never become law.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Wilmot Proviso was a proposal to prohibit slavery in the territory acquired by the United States at the conclusion of the Mexican War.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Political Crisis of the 1840s Congressman David Wilmot, a Pennsylvania Democrat, introduced an amendment, known as the Wilmot Proviso, to a war appropriations bill. The proviso forbade slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico.
Detailed explanation-5: -During the war, Congressman David Wilmot introduced the Wilmot Proviso, a proposal to ban slavery in any new territory acquired from Mexico. The measure passed in the House of Representatives but failed in the Senate.