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What was the Wilmot Proviso?

a compromise allowing California to enter the Union as a free state


a proposed law stating that slavery should not exist in lands won from Mexico


a law stating that new territories and states should decide whether or not to allow slavery


a compromise allowing slavery in new territories of New Mexico and California

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a proposed law stating that slavery should not exist in lands won from Mexico

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