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3 days ago · A Congressman "Pleads the Case of White Men". In 1847, Representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania made a speech (excerpted below) to the House of Representatives in which he proposed a legislative amendment that would ban slavery from any territory acquired as a result of the war with Mexico. The amendment came to be known as the Wilmot Proviso.
4 days ago · (The party was founded amidst the anti-slavery fervor of the 1850s.) ... “a fateful meeting began in the rooms of Pennsylvanian David Wilmot at the Briggs House … a gathering of twelve leading ...
2 days ago · Democratic Congressman David Wilmot of Pennsylvania offered an amendment known as the Wilmot Proviso, which would ban slavery in any newly acquired lands. The Wilmot Proviso passed the House with the support of both Northern Whigs and Northern Democrats, breaking the normal pattern of partisan division in congressional votes, but it was ...
- 1856; 167 years ago
- Henry Clay
- 1833; 190 years ago
May 9, 2024 · In addition, David Wilmot, who plays Seamus in Bodkin, is an award-winning stage and screen actor from Ireland as well.Most of the supporting and background characters in Bodkin's cast are also ...
May 15, 2024 · A group of podcasters set out to investigate the mysterious disappearance of three strangers in an idyllic Irish town. But when they start to pull the strings, they find a story much bigger and ...
May 7, 2024 · The Mexican-American War was a conflict between the United States and Mexico, fought from April 1846 to February 1848.Won by the Americans and damned by its contemporary critics as expansionist, it resulted in the U.S. gaining more than 500,000 square miles (1,300,000 square km) of Mexican territory extending westward from the Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean.
May 9, 2024 · Bodkin also stars Robyn Cara as Emmy, Gilbert's assistant, as well as David Wilmot, Chris Walley, and others. With seven episodes in the season, which all dropped today, May 9, Bodkin is an ...
