MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE WILMOT PROVISO
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majority of the representatives came from the North
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majority of the representatives came from the South
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Polk convinced them to pass it
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Though Wilmot’s heart did not bleed for the slave, he envisioned California as a place where free white Pennsylvanians could work without the competition of slave labor. Since the north was more populous and had more Representatives in the House, the Wilmot Proviso passed.
Detailed explanation-2: -It passed twice in the U.S. House of Representatives where Northerners had the majority. But it failed in the U.S. Senate where there was an equal amount of support for the free states and the slave states.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.