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...

Claims. He is best known for being the prime sponsor and eponym of the Wilmot Proviso, a failed proposal to ban the expansion of slavery to western lands...

appropriations bill, Democratic Congressman David Wilmot of Pennsylvania offered an amendment known as the Wilmot Proviso, which would ban slavery in any newly acquired...

returned to the Senate, where he opposed the Mexican–American War, the Wilmot Proviso and the Compromise of 1850 before he died of tuberculosis in 1850. He...

David Wilmot of Pennsylvania, offered an amendment known as the Wilmot Proviso that would ban slavery in any newly acquired lands. The Wilmot Proviso was...

Academy Wilmot Proviso, an American law to ban slavery in annexed territory from Mexico proposed by David Wilmot in the 1840s Lockean proviso, a feature...

Southerners, who saw the Proviso as an attack on their society and their constitutional rights. With the failure of the Wilmot Proviso, Senator Lewis Cass...

intensified the debate over slavery in the United States. Although the Wilmot Proviso that explicitly forbade the extension of slavery into conquered Mexican...

make reference to the Wilmot Proviso, a contemporary piece of legislation intended to stop the spread of slavery. The Proviso Township government office...

for another decade. Proposals included: The Wilmot Proviso, which was created by Congressman David Wilmot, banning slavery in any new territory to be...