The strategy of the anti-slavery forces was containment - to stop the expansion and thus put slavery on a path to gradual extinction. The slave-holding interests in the South denounced this strategy as infringing upon their Constitutional rights. ... The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 legislated this doctrine. ... Buchanan said that the Dred Scott decision was proof that the South had no reason for secession, and that the Union "... was intended to be perpetual," but that, "The power by force of arms to compel a State to remain in the Union," was not among the "... enumerated powers granted...

• Word Count: 6922
• Approx Pages: 28

The strategy of the anti-slavery forces was containment - to stop the expansion and thus put slavery on a path to gradual extinction. The slave-holding interests in the South denounced this strategy as infringing upon their Constitutional rights. ... The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 legislated this doctrine. ... Buchanan said that the Dred Scott decision was proof that the South had no reason for secession, and that the Union "... was intended to be perpetual," but that, "The power by force of arms to compel a State to remain in the Union," was not among the "... enumerated powers granted...

• Word Count: 7511
• Approx Pages: 30
• Grade Level: High School

Even though most Native American tribes held prisoners of war captive, there were some circumstances in which growth of a tribe was threatened, resulting in the capturing of mostly women and children as sort of an "adoption" strategy (Davis). ...

• Word Count: 2752
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate