What was the Wilmot Proviso???

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1840's

Answer 1

I got the following from Wikipedia:

"The Wilmot Proviso, first suggested on August 8, 1846 in the House of Representatives and attached to many bills in the United States Congress, would have outlawed slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico by the United States as a result of the recently begun Mexican-American War. The proviso, which was never passed, was named for Congressman David Wilmot, a Democrat from Pennsylvania. The Free Soil Party formed in support of the Wilmot Proviso, and their platform of Free Soil was later adopted by the Republican Party, which Wilmot helped initiate."

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Answer 2

it was an amendment to an appropriation bill introduced by david wilmot requested by president james k. polk that slavery would be barred from all lands aquired from mexico as a result of the war in aug 1846. there was more support for this in the north than the south. its commitment was to prohibit slavery in all federal territories, which president lincoln and the republican party adopted in the 1850s