MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE WILMOT PROVISO
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Question
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Add it to the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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Add it to an existing bill
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Introduced it to congress
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Bribed the government
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1846, a Pennsylvania representative named David Wilmot proposed legislation intended to bar slavery’s expansion into the lands acquired after the Mexican-American War. The Wilmot Proviso failed to pass-and debate over the proposal exacerbated North-South tensions.
Detailed explanation-2: -A U.S. Congressman (1845-1851) and later Senator (1861-1863) from Pennsylvania, David Wilmot sponsored an amendment to an appropriations bill in the House of Representatives on August 8, 1846, which proposed the banning of slavery in land gained from Mexico in the Mexican-American War.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.