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The Wilmot Proviso was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War (1846-48).Soon after the war began, President James K. Polk sought the appropriation of $2 million as part of a bill to negotiate the terms of a treaty.he Wilmot Proviso was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War (1846-48).
The Wilmot Proviso proposed an American law to ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War.The conflict over the proviso was one of the major events leading to the American Civil War.he vote to add the proviso to the bill was then called, and it passed by 83â64. A last-ditch effort by southerners to table the entire bill was defeated by 94â78, and then the entire bill was approved 85â80. Most ominously, these votes all fell overwhelmingly along sectional rather than party lines.