Question

The Wilmot Proviso was a proposed amendment to a military appropriations bill that would

A. permit the slavery issue to be determined by popular sovereignty.
B. regulate competition between free and slave states.
C. establish slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico.
D. ban slavery in territories acquired from Mexico

Answer 1

The Wilmot Proviso was a proposed amendment to a military appropriations bill that would have banned slavery in territories acquired from Mexico (D). The amendment was proposed by Congressman David Wilmot in 1846.