aug 8, 1846 - WIlmot Proviso
Aug 8 1846, slavery issue
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David Wilmot was trying to pass a law called Proviso that would have outlawed slavery in territories that United States aquired from Mexico as the result of Mexican-American war. All his attemps to get this law passed failed.
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Timeline: Causes of the American Civil war by Veera Rakkolainen
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