1. Wilmot Proviso
Apart from this the Proviso helped the future of the Union, the West and slave expansion in a very drastic way. ... Once slavery was introduced in the new territory then it would be too late to prohibit it later on. ... (Wheeler & Becker pg. 243) The Proviso impacted Texas severely and as Preston King stated, "If slavery, was not excluded (from the territories) by law, the presence of the slaves would had excluded the laboring white man". ...
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