8 agos 1846 año - Wilmot Proviso
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David Wilmot was a Pennsylvania Congressman who created the Wilmot Proviso. It was an amendment to the appropriations bill by James Polk so they could gain funding for the Mexican-American War. David proposed it stating that slavery from all the territories the US gets from Mexico should be banned which included California. That opened the topic and debate for the problems of slavery.
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This is a drawling of what David Wilmot looked like. He created the Wilmot Proviso which stated slavery from all the territories the US gets from Mexico should be banned which included California.
Year 1846
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