Wilmot Proviso
What year was the Wilmot Proviso introduced?
1846
How much money did the Wilmot Proviso provide to President Polk at the end of the Mexican-American war?
2 million dollars.
Where was the Missouri Compromise line?
36* 30*
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
A bill that would ban slavery in the territories that America had after the war with Mexico.
Why was the south mad?
Because they fought the war and they wanted to move their plantations to the new states.
Who introduced the Wilmot Proviso?
David Wilmot
Wilmot stated that no land taken from ______ would have slaves in them
Mexico
Was the Wilmot Proviso Approved?
No.
The Wilmot Proviso was one of the major events leading to ___________________
The Civil War
By making the new states slave states or free states both options would make America _________
Unbalanced
