What was the Wilmot Proviso, and what affect did it have on congress after the war?

The Wilmot Proviso was proposed in the US Congress in 1846 as an attempt to ban slavery, after the Mexican-American War, in the new territories acquired. It was blocked in the Senate, when the representation of the slave states from the South was greater. It was tried again in 1847 and the Senate rejected the law again.

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false the first governing document in the us history was the articles of federation

du boi was considered a radical because he wanted the immediate end for segregation. the biggest different between him and booker t. washington is that, even though washington believed that segregation should be considered illegal, he did not believe at all that a law was needed to keep blacks away from whites and that this would be something natural (to have the races apart) for a long time until society adjusted, while du boi believe that agitation was the only way to end segregation.