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The Wilmot Proviso was introduced on August 8, 1846 in the House of Representatives as a rider on a $2 million appropriations bill intended for the final negotiations to resolve the Mexican-American War. The intent of the proviso, submitted by Democratic Congressman David Wilmot, was to prevent the introduction of slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico. The proviso did not pass in this session or in any other session when it was reintroduced over the course of the next several years, but many consider it as the first event in the long slide to Civil War which would accelerate through the 1850s.
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the Wilmot Proviso, intended to stop the spread of slavery, but he remained a member of the...
the Wilmot Proviso. He was not a candidate for reelection in 1850 and resumed agricultural pursuits...
Timeline of United States history (1820-1859)
- Florida and Texas become states 1846 - Mexican-American War begins 1846 - Wilmot Proviso proposed...
limit to the Oregon territory, and voted for the Wilmot Proviso, which would have banned slavery from...
to the downfall of the party. In the third place, the rejection of the Wilmot Proviso and the...
number of northern Whigs in Congress away from their insistence upon the Wilmot Proviso--the...
Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War
manufacturing, shipping, banking, and international trade in the North. 1847 Opposition to the Wilmot Proviso helps to consolidate the "free-soil" forces. 1848 + On February 2, 1848, Mexico is forced...