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	Wilmot Proviso - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wilmot Proviso 1846, amendment to a bill put before the U.S. House of Representatives during the Mexican War; it provided an appropriation of $2 million to enable President Polk to negotiate a territorial settlement with Mexico.
		David Wilmot introduced an amendment to the bill stipulating that none of the territory acquired in the Mexican War should be open to slavery.
		In the election of 1848 the terms of the Wilmot Proviso, a definite challenge to proslavery groups, were ignored by the Whig and Democratic parties but were adopted by the Free-Soil party.
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	Wilmot Proviso - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Wilmot Proviso, amendment attached to an appropriations bill adopted in 1846 by the U.S. House of Representatives, proposed by David Wilmot, a...
		Proviso, legal term for a clause in a statute, deed, or some other legal document that introduces a qualification or condition to some other...
		In 1846 Congress debated the Wilmot Proviso, which would have closed to slavery all territories gained in the Mexican War (1846-1848).
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	David Wilmot - LoveToKnow 1911
		DAVID WILMOT (1814-1868), American political leader, was born at Bethany, Pennsylvania, on the 10th of January 1814.
		Although known as the Wilmot Proviso it really originated with Jacob Brinkerhoff (1810-1880) of Ohio, Wilmot being selected to present it only because his party standing was more regular.
		Wilmot supported Van Buren in 1848 and entered the Republican party at the time of its formation, and was a delegate to the national conventions of 1856 and 1860.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /David_Wilmot (274 words)

	Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.3, Entry 317, WILMOT PROVISO: Library of Economics and Liberty
		In the house the proviso was moved by Wilmot as an amendment, Feb. 8, renewed by Hamlin, Feb. 15, and adopted by a vote of 115 to 106.
		in the house, the proviso was added to the senate bill in committee of the whole by a vote of 90 to 80, but rejected on the report of the committee (97 to 102); and the bill, without the proviso, was finally passed (115 to 81).
		But the struggle over the Wilmot proviso, which was essentially only a declaration of the existing law of the territories, was a very sufficient warning that some influence was at work, which would resist any such declaration for the future.
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	Wilmot Proviso
		In 1846 and 1847 the Wilmot Proviso, a short statement saying that slavery would not be allowed in territories acquired during the Mexican American War, was added to appropriations bills in the House of Representatives.
		When Representatives again attached the Wilmot Proviso to another appropriations bill, the Senate debated, then voted down the second measure, showing the House that the Senate would not pass a bill with the Proviso attached.
		The Proviso was based on the Northwest Ordinances of 1787, written by Thomas Jefferson.
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	Wilmot Proviso: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He was initially a Whig, left the party in 1848 when it refused to affirm the Wilmot Proviso (prohibiting slavery in the areas taken from Mexico) and became one of the founders of the Free Soil Party, organized...
		In response to the Wilmot Proviso, Yancey wrote (1848) the Alabama Platform, which demanded of Congress the positive protection of slavery in the territories...
		The antislavery forces favored the proposal made in the Wilmot Proviso to exclude slavery from all the lands acquired from Mexico.
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	Wilmot Proviso - MSN Encarta
		Wilmot Proviso, amendment attached to an appropriations bill adopted in 1846 by the U.S. House of Representatives, proposed by David Wilmot, a Democratic representative from Pennsylvania.
		At the conclusion of the Mexican War, President James Knox Polk requested from Congress the sum of $2 million in order to indemnify the Mexican government for territory annexed by the U.S. The Wilmot Proviso moved to exclude slavery from the acquired territory and was approved by the House on August 8, 1846.
		Because it brought into sharp focus the differences then existing on the slavery question, the proviso was the subject of widespread controversy that resulted in increased hostility between the northern and southern states.
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	David Wilmot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He was a sponsor and eponym of the Wilmot Proviso which aimed to ban slavery in land gained from Mexico in the War of 1846–48.
		He was the author of the Wilmot Proviso relative to slavery in America's newly annexed territory and took a leading part in the founding of the United States Republican Party in 1854.
		The amendment, famous in American history as the Wilmot Proviso, was adopted by the United States House of Representatives, but was defeated, with the original bill, by the U.S. Senate's adjournment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Wilmot (422 words)

	Getting the Message Out! Pivotal Events: The Wilmot Proviso
		Like their southern colleagues, they supported the war and expected to extract some of Mexico's land as a result of it, but they sought to assure the northern public that slavery would not be allowed to expand into any of the acquired territory.
		Famous ever since as the Wilmot Proviso, the amendment stipulated that slavery and involuntary servitude would be barred from all lands acquired from Mexico as a result of the war.
		To preserve unity in the presidential campaign of 1848, moreover, neither Democrats nor Whigs endorsed the Proviso, causing outraged antislavery men in the North to form the new Free Soil party.
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	Wilmot Proviso
		In 1846, David Wilmot a member of the Democratic Party and the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, proposed the Wilmot Proviso.
		The proviso passed the House of Representatives because a majority of the representatives came from the North.
		The Wilmot Proviso espoused the philosophies of the Free Soil Party and eventually the Republican Party--slavery could not expand.
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	Republicanism and the Compromise of 1850
		Yet the legacy of Wilmot's Proviso was heightened sectional animosity and a widening gulf between northerners and southerners over slavery.
		To leading southerners, the Wilmot Proviso and the Taylor administration’s plan to admit California as a free state without passing through the territorial stage meant the government was prepared to deny the slaveholders their equality.
		The Wilmot Proviso and the distasteful features of the Compromise reinforced the perception that a corrupt majority was prepared to subjugate a virtuous but powerless minority.
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	Wilmot Proviso - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Wilmot Proviso, first suggested on August 8, 1846 in the House of Representatives and attached to many bills in the United States Congress, would have outlawed slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico by the United States as a result of the recently begun Mexican-American War.
		The Free Soil Party formed in support of the Wilmot Proviso, and their platform of Free Soil was later adopted by the Republican Party, which Wilmot helped initiate.
		Although known as the Wilmot Proviso, it originated with Jacob Brinkerhoff of Ohio; Wilmot was selected to present it only because his party standing was more regular.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wilmot_Proviso (306 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Wilmot Proviso (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wilmot Proviso WILMOT PROVISO [Wilmot Proviso] 1846, amendment to a bill put before the U.S. House of Representatives during the Mexican War; it provided an appropriation of $2 million to enable President Polk to negotiate a territorial settlement with Mexico.
		Wilmot, David WILMOT, DAVID [Wilmot, David] 1814-68, American legislator, b.
		Bethany, Pa. As a Democratic Congressman (1845-51) he became widely known as the author of the famous Wilmot Proviso, which helped build up sectional animosity before the Civil War.
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	The Wilmot Home Page
		Wilmot is a Gulch in Lemhi County, Idaho
		Wilmot is a Oilfield in Cowley County, Kansas
		Wilmot United Church is at the corner of King and Carleton Streets in downtown Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.
	www.goldbug.com /WilmotHomePage.html (3052 words)

	Wilmot Proviso — Infoplease.com
		In the election of 1848 the terms of the Wilmot Proviso, a definite challenge to proslavery groups, were ignored by the Whig and Democratic parties but were adopted by the
		David WILMOT - WILMOT, David (1814—1868) Senate Years of Service: 1861-1863 Party: Republican WILMOT, David,...
		David Wilmot - Wilmot, David, 1814–68, American legislator, b.
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	Wilmot Proviso
		Democrat David Wilmot of Pennsylvania introduced a rider to that measure, which barred slavery from any territory acquired from Mexico.
		The bill containing the Wilmot Proviso passed the House in 1846 and 1847; both times, however, it was defeated in the Senate.
		The position espoused in the proviso was the basic plank of the Free-Soil Party platform and would later become a fundamental position of the new Republican Party.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h342.html (297 words)

	Withdrawl of William Lowndes Yancey Law Office, National Historic Landmarks Program (NHL) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Wilmot Proviso, which would have prohibited slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico, gave Yancey his first opportunity to act.
		The principles of opposition to the Wilmot Proviso, known as the "Alabama Platform," were a significant foreshadowing of the radical sectionalism which would pull the nation apart.
		The "Alabama Platform" was designed to curb the will of the majority and preserve to the states all powers not expressly granted to the federal government, equal rights of citizens and states in the territories, and the duty of Congress to protect property rights therein so long as they remained territories.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nhl/DOE_dedesignations/Yancey.htm (1063 words)

	From the Wilmot Proviso to the Compromise of 1850
		From the Wilmot Proviso to the Compromise of 1850
		James Polk's desire to gain territory in the West caused a battle over the expansion of slavery between North and South.
		The Wilmot Proviso, introduced by Democratic Representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania on August 8, 1846 (just two months after the outbreak of war with Mexico), banned slavery anywhere in any territory that might be acquired from Mexico.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/presidents/polk/wilmot_1 (101 words)

	chapterten
		Wilmot added an amendment to a military appropriations bill that proposed that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist" in any territory the United States might acquire as a result of the war with Mexico.
		Beginning with Ohio and Michigan, nearly all of the Northern states passed resolutions endorsing the Wilmot Proviso.
		The Proviso then was attached to a different bill, and was once again passed by the House but rejected by the Senate.
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	Westward Expansion
		Congressman David Wilmot, a Pennsylvania Democrat, introduced an amendment, known as the Wilmot Proviso, to a war appropriations bill.
		Southerners denounced the Wilmot Proviso as "treason to the Constitution." President Polk tried to quiet the debate between "Southern agitators and Northern fanatics" by assuring moderate Northerners that slavery could never take root in the arid southwest, but his efforts were to no avail.
		Although the Wilmot Proviso did not become law, the issue it raised--the extension of slavery into the western territories--continued to contribute to the growth of political factionalism.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gl/west22.htm (343 words)

	Wilmot Proviso Essays
		Part II The Wilmot Proviso In 1847 the debate of the Wilmot Proviso arose a very controversial conflict regarding the subject with the expanding of slavery into new territories.
		Not everyone in the north favored the Proviso despite the differences neither the south nor the north spoke united in regards to slavery and territorial expansion.
		David Wilmot was the one who brought it up to the surface, yet it is not a proven fact he was the authentic author.
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	Causes of the Civil War: The Mexican War and the Wilmot Proviso (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In August of 1847 Congressman David Wilmot of Pennsylvania attached a proviso to an amendment that would exclude slavery from the newly acquired territories.
		Wilmot's proviso, although unsuccessful, brought the heated issue of slavery expansion that the Missouri Compromise seemed to fix back to the center of political debate.
		causes of the civil war: the mexican war and the wilmot proviso
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		Describes the context of the Wilmot Proviso, legislation that sought to bar slavery from territories gained from the Mexican War, and which...
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