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3 days ago · 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.
May 4, 2024 · Lincoln’s spot resolutions request Polk provide Congress with all facts and terms regarding the attack, including its location. Congress chose not to investigate Lincoln’s claims against the president. Representative Abraham Lincoln's Spot Resolutions, December 22, 1847. Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, National Archives (HR30A ...
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- What did the Mexican-American War have to do with Manifest Destiny?The concept of Manifest Destiny held that the United States had the providential right to expand to the Pacific Ocean. In 1845 the U.S. annexed the...
- Was there opposition to the Mexican-American War within the United States?Democrats, especially those in the Southwest, strongly favoured the Mexican-American War. Most Whigs, however, viewed the war as conscienceless lan...
- What did the U.S. gain by winning the Mexican-American War?Under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which settled the Mexican-American War, the United States gained more than 500,000 square miles (1,300,000 s...
- How did the Mexican-American War increase sectionalism in the United States?The Mexican-American War reopened the slavery-extension issue, which divided the North and South and which had been largely dormant since the Misso...
5 days ago · Anti-slavery elements fought for the exclusion of slavery from any territory absorbed by the U.S. In 1847, the House of Representatives passed the Wilmot Proviso, stipulating that none of the territory acquired should be open to slavery.
- April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848, (1 year, 9 months, 1 week and 1 day)
5 days ago · Differing Views In Congress, Representative David Wilmot proposed the Wilmot Proviso to ban slavery on any lands acquired from Mexico. Southerners protested. They wanted California and New Mexico to be slave states. Senator John C. Calhoun of South Carolina proposed another idea.
5 days ago · To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: I communicate to Congress certain documents, being a continuation of those heretofore laid before them on the subject of our affairs with Great Britain. Without going back beyond the renewal in 1803 of the war in which Great Britain is engaged, and omitting unrepaired wrongs of ...
6 days ago · A Southern Senator Opposes the "All-Mexico" Plan. John C. Calhoun, Senator from South Carolina and future spokesman for southern secession, delivered the following speech to Congress on January 4, 1848. At the time, U.S. and Mexican diplomats were in the midst of negotiating a peace treaty to determine how much of Mexico would be incorporated ...
