Welcome to Westonci.ca, the Q&A platform where your questions are met with detailed answers from experienced experts. Connect with professionals on our platform to receive accurate answers to your questions quickly and efficiently. Discover detailed answers to your questions from a wide network of experts on our comprehensive Q&A platform.

Define or describe Free-Soil Party, Fugitive, AND Wilmot Proviso. Answer all three, please. No links will be tolerated. Thank you.

Sagot :

Free-Soil Party- A minor but influential political party in the pre-Civil War period of American history that opposed the extension of slavery into the western territories.

Fugitive- is someone that has escaped from captivity or is in hiding, an ‘escapee’.

Wilmot Proviso- The Wilmot Proviso was a proposal to prohibit slavery in the territory acquired by the United States at the conclusion of the Mexican War. In 1846, David Wilmot a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, proposed the Wilmot Proviso.