USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The issue of whether to permit slavery in the territories organized in this new land consumed Congress at the end of the 1840s. During the war, Congressman David Wilmot introduced the Wilmot Proviso, a proposal to ban slavery in any new territory acquired from Mexico.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1846, David Wilmot a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, proposed the Wilmot Proviso. He attached the proviso to an appropriations bill to pay Mexico for land that the United States had seized as a result of the Mexican War.

Detailed explanation-3: -In behalf of anti-slavery forces throughout the country, a Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania named David Wilmot offered an amendment (August 8, 1846) to the bill forbidding slavery in the new territory, thus precipitating bitter national debate in an atmosphere of heightening sectional conflict.

Detailed explanation-4: -On August 8, 1846, Wilmot introduced legislation in the House that boldly declared, “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist” in lands won in the Mexican-American War.