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- Wilmot Proviso
Proposed legislative provision that slavery would be forbidden in any territory acquired by the United States in the Mexican-American war; triggered US political crisis leading to Compromise of 1850
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. Wikipedia
