The Wilmot Proviso,if adopted,would have
A) prevented the taking of any territory from Mexico.
B) required California to enter the Union as a slave state.
C) overturned the Fugitive Slave Law.
D) prohibited slavery in any territory acquired in the Mexican War.
E) acquired Cuba as a slave territory.

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The Wilmot Proviso, introduced by David Wilmot in 1846, proposed that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the Mexican War. Therefore, if adopted, it would have prohibited slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico in the war.

The Wilmot Proviso,if Adopted,would Have