The wilmot proviso, if it had passed, would have allowed slavery in any area of the united states gained canada from the british prohibited slavery in any lands acquired from mexico made mexicans and american indian slaves alongside blacks, in the territory acquired from mexico

“the battle of stalingrad is not a turning point necessarily in strategic terms, because a lot more has to be done before the soviets can be certain of defeating germany,” says renowned world war ii historian richard overy. the germans had fought nearly a thousand miles across the soviet union to get to stalingrad.

most people were factory or company owners.