The Wilmot Proviso proposed a resolution

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The Wilmot Proviso sought to prohibit slavery in any lands gained from Mexico during the Mexican–American War, so the correct choice is “prohibiting slavery in all territory acquired from Mexico.”

1) Relevant knowledge points and concepts
- The proviso was introduced by Congressman David Wilmot (Pennsylvania) in 1846 as an amendment to an appropriations bill.  
- Its language forbade slavery and involuntary servitude in any territory acquired from Mexico as a result of the war.  
- It is a key event in the antebellum period that intensified sectional conflict over the expansion of slavery and contributed to the rise of the Free Soil movement.

2) Step-by-step reasoning
- The wording and purpose of the amendment directly targeted lands expected to be ceded by Mexico (e.g., California, New Mexico, parts of the Southwest).  
- Because it was attached to funding for the war, it applied specifically to territories “acquired from Mexico,” not to other foreign policy aims or later congressional acts.  
- The House passed the proviso several times, but the Senate defeated it; its repeated introduction shows its intended prohibition of slavery’s extension into Mexican cessions.

3) Intermediate steps (text and consequences)
- Text paraphrase: “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist” in territory from Mexico.  
- Political consequence: heightened North–South tensions, helped spur the Free Soil Party and debates leading toward the Compromise of 1850.

4) Why the correct answer is correct
- The proviso’s explicit subject was the status of slavery in the new territories from Mexico; its whole purpose was to bar slavery there. That matches the answer choice exactly.

5) Why the other options are incorrect
- “Annex Cuba…”: that refers to other expansionist schemes (e.g., filibustering, or later Ostend Manifesto), not the Wilmot Proviso.  
- “Settle the Oregon dispute…”: the Oregon boundary settlement (49th parallel) was a separate 1846 issue unrelated to Wilmot’s amendment.  
- “Divide Kansas and Nebraska into state”: that refers to the Kansas–Nebraska Act (1854), which came later and had a very different purpose (popular sovereignty).

Conclusion: The Wilmot Proviso proposed prohibiting slavery in all territory acquired from Mexico, matching the provided answer.

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