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Active: Those citizens who were entitled to vote were termed as active citizens. Only men above 25 years of age who paid taxes were entitled to vote and considered as active citizens. Active citizens were required to be literate, speak French and have been resident for more than one year. Active citizens were required to pay taxes equal to about three days work a year.
Passive: Women, children, and other people were considered as passive citizens. Women, children, and other people were not entitled to vote. Passive citizens had no property rights.
The Zimmerman telegraph allowed communication across farther distances, making a world war more feasible. This gave a certain amount of confidence and the U.S. joined the war.
The South opposed the Wilmot Proviso because it would have prevented any new territories from having slavery in them.
In 1846, Congressman David Wilmot of Pennsylvania introduced the proviso as an amendment to an appropriations bill in connection with the peace treaty being negotiated with Mexico. His amendment stipulated that any territory gained from Mexico would be free, not allowing slavery. The specific language of the proviso went like this:
<span><em>Provided, That, as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the moneys herein appropriated, neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the party shall first be duly convicted</em>.
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Wilmot's amendment passed in the House of Representatives, but was unable to get approval in the Senate. The high-intensity debate over slavery and the expansion of slavery was evidenced by how things went with the "Wilmot Proviso."