Civil War Escalation Hope Curran 6th period * Wilmot Proviso~ David Wilmot of Pennsylvania, feared the ?slaveocracy? and introduces a new amendment. It stated that slavery should never exist in any of the territory to be wrested from Mexico. It passed the House of Representatives twice, but didn?t make it through the senate. Southern Senate members didn?t want to be robbed of slave states. It never became a federal law, but was endorsed by the legislatures of all but one of the free stated, and symbolized the issue of slavery in territories.
Civil war Escalation Chart
Civil War Escalation Hope Curran 6th period * Wilmot Proviso~ David Wilmot of Pennsylvania, feared the ?slaveocracy? and introduces a new amendment. It stated that slavery should never exist in any of the territory to be wrested from Mexico. It passed the House of Representatives twice, but didn?t make it through the senate. Southern Senate members didn?t want to be robbed of slave states. It never became a federal law, but was endorsed by the legislatures of all but one of the free stated, and symbolized the issue of slavery in territories.
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