MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE WILMOT PROVISO
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The Peace Treaty between Mexico and the U.S.A. to end the Mexican-American war
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A bill passed to stop slavery from entering the new states
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A bill passed to end slavery in the south
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A bill passed to end slavery in the midwest
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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: -neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the party shall first be duly convicted.” This provision that slavery be excluded from the Mexican Cession became known as the Wilmot Proviso.
Detailed explanation-3: -Wilmot Proviso, in U.S. history, important congressional proposal in the 1840s to prohibit the extension of slavery into the territories, a basic plank upon which the Republican Party was subsequently built.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -The Wilmot Proviso was issued on August 8th, 1846 by Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman David Wilmot. It prohibited the expansion of slavery into any territory acquired by the United States from Mexico as a result of the Mexican-American War settlement.