Question

Define or describe Free-Soil Party, Fugitive, AND Wilmot Proviso. Answer all three, please. No links will be tolerated. Thank you.

Answer 1

Free-Soil Party- A minor but influential political party in the pre-Civil War period of American history that opposed the extension of slavery into the western territories.

Fugitive- is someone that has escaped from captivity or is in hiding, an ‘escapee’.

Wilmot Proviso- The Wilmot Proviso was a proposal to prohibit slavery in the territory acquired by the United States at the conclusion of the Mexican War. In 1846, David Wilmot a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, proposed the Wilmot Proviso.