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Wilmot Proviso caused the conflict between the North and South which later lead to the American Civil War. He made a proposal at Congress which was an extreme Abolitionist stance and polarised the two fractions.

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It would be difficult to link the Wilmot Proviso of 1846 to the US Civil War in 1861. Fifteen years before the US Civil War was more than it seems in today's fast paced world. In 1846, time moved allot slower. And, the Wilmot Proviso failed to pass the US Senate. The purpose of the would be Proviso was to ensure that any territories obtained from Mexico could not later be slave states or even slave territories. The Missouri Compromise of 1850 gave the US another ten years of a grace period to fix that "flaw" in US society. It later took a war to fix it,

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This proposal to Congress represented an extreme Abolitionist stance that the South were never going to endorse. It served to polarise the two factions, and dramatise their differences.

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