The correct answer is A) prohibit slavery from all territory acquired from Mexico.
In 1846, Congressman David Wilmot proposed to prohibit slavery from all territory acquired from Mexico.
After the United States won the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), it gained large territories. The Wilmot Proviso tried to eliminate the use of slaves in those recently acquired lands. It was David Wilmot, a Congressman from the state of Pennsylvania, who proposed the the proviso.
David Wilmot was a representative from Pennsylvania in the United States Congress, who introduced this legislation to the House on August 8, 1846. In the end, the proviso was not successful and this represented a major cause for the American Civil War.
The Europeans brought with them diseases which were unknown to natives. Many died as a result. The Europeans brought sugar which natives liked and as a result now had tooth decay for the first time. Europeans traded the natives goods in exchange for trinkets of little value but the natives didn’t know that at the time.
Answer:
because the more population the south had the more members of congress they would have .
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