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Civil War History: The Wilmot Proviso and the Intensifying Debate Over Slavery's Expansion (Part 2)

52 min · 20. maj 2026
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In the wake of the Mexican-American War, the United States acquired vast new western territories, triggering an explosive national debate over whether slavery would be allowed to expand into these lands. The Wilmot Proviso, a simple amendment introduced in 1846, forced politicians and citizens alike to confront this divisive question, shattering the uneasy silence that had long surrounded the issue of slavery's future in America.

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