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Wilmot Proviso
An amendment to an 1846 appropriations bill that would have forbade slavery from any territory acquired from Mexico. The amendment passed the House twice but was defeated in the Senate.
- Part of Speech: proper noun
- Industry/Domain: History
- Category: American history
- Company: University of Houston
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