3 sentences with 'amendment'

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« Committed to protecting white workers by keeping slavery out of lands taken from Mexico, Pennsylvania Congressman David Wilmot attached to an 1846 revenue bill an amendment prohibiting slavery in the new territory. »
« Southern congressmen rejected the amendment as an attempt to gradually abolish slavery - not just in Missouri, but throughout the Union - by violating the property rights of slaveholders and their freedom to take their property wherever they wished. »
« Tallmadge proposed that Missouri be admitted as a free state, that no more slaves be allowed to enter Missouri after it gained statehood, and that all enslaved children born there after its admission be freed at age twenty-five. The amendment changed the terms of the debate by presenting slavery as an evil that had to be ended. »

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