SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
SOUTHERN SECESSION
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Question
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David Wilmot was a Democrat from Pennsylvania.
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Wilmot proposed slavery should be banned in any territory acquired from the war with Mexico.
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The proviso passed the House of Representatives.
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The proviso passed the Senate.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which of the following was true of the Wilmot Proviso? It would prohibit slavery in any lands acquired from Mexico.
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: -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-4: -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.