The Wilmot Proviso
A) overturned the Missouri Compromise.
B) was an appropriation to pay for peace with Mexico.
C) banned all slavery west of the Mississippi River.
D) prohibited slavery in any land acquired from Mexico.
E) passed in the House and was signed into law.

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The Wilmot Proviso was introduced by Congressman David Wilmot in August 1846, and it aimed to prohibit slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico as a result of the Mexican-American War. It did not overturn the Missouri Compromise, which dealt with the question of slavery in the territories acquired from the Louisiana Purchase, and it was not an appropriation to pay for peace with Mexico. The Wilmot Proviso did not pass into law, but it sparked intense debates about the future of slavery in the expanding United States.