Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso , or more rarely the Wilmot clause , was an amendment submitted to the US Congress on August 8, 1846 by David Wilmot , a member of the House of Representatives . It said that slavery could not be introduced in the vast areas that fell to the United States in the course of the Mexican-American War . The application was submitted several times over the next few years, but never passed. This failed essentially because of resistance in the Senate . It is counted as one of the incidents that led to the Civil War .
The Wilmot Proviso was initially obsolete due to the compromise of 1850 . With the entry into force of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution in 1865, slavery was then banned across America.
literature
- Michael F. Holt: Prologue to Conflict: The Crisis and Compromise of 1850. Univ. Prof. Kentucky 2005 ISBN 978-0813191362 .
- James M. McPherson : Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. Oxford University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-19-503863-0 , pp. 52-60, 65-67.
- Roger L. Ransom: Conflict and Compromise: The Political Economy of Slavery, Emancipation and the American Civil War. Cambridge University, Cambridge 1989, ISBN 0-521-32343-6 , pp. 97-100 (= The North Objects: The Wilmot Proviso ).
- Carl Sandburg : Abraham Lincoln. The life of an immortal. Hamburg / Vienna 1958.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Congressional Globe. 29th Congress, Session 1, 1217.