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It was an unsuccessful policy to ban slavery in all territory acquired during the Mexican American War.  

Explanation: The proviso is part of the many attempts to deal with the tenuous debate over the balance of free and slave states.

Wilmot Proviso was an important congressional proposal to prohibit the extension of slavery into the territories.

What was the Wilmot Proviso?

The Wilmot Proviso was an unsuccessful proposal in the United States Congress which aimed to ban the slavery in territory, which was acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War.

Wilmot Proviso divided the congress and created a free-soil party.

The conflict over the Wilmot Proviso was one of the major reason leading to the American Civil War.

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