The Wilmot Proviso was a proposed amendment to a military appropriations bill that would
a. regulate competition between free and slave states.
b. permit the slavery issue to be determined by popular sovereignty.
c. establish slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico.
d. ban slavery in territories acquired from Mexico.
The Wilmot Proviso was a proposed amendment to a military appropriations bill that would "d. ban slavery in territories acquired from Mexico," since this was one of the many plans that tried but failed to avert civil war.
