Question

California joined as a "free state," voters in New Mexico were going to decide if the state would be slave or fee (popular sovereignty), and runaway slaves must be returned to their owners. What law set this up? Question 3 options: Wilmot Proviso Compromise of 1850 Kansas-Nebraska Act Dred Scott Act

Answer 1

Pennsylvania congressman David Wilmot proposed law stating "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any" lands won from Mexico

denounced by Southerners

northern-dominated House of Representatives approved, Senate voted it down