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0h 32min, aug 8, 1846 y - 1846-1850 ---- The Wilmot Proviso

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This was a bill that would haven taken place during the Mexican-American War. If it were to have been passed it would have made it illegal to have slavery in territory the U.S. took as a result of war. This event contributed to the Civil War, because it would have caused a lot of controversy on the balance between the slave and free states.

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0h 32min, aug 8, 1846 y
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~ 179 years ago