Statistics for Notable Fire-eaters (secessionists) of the Antebellum and American Civil War

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Secretary of War to James Monroe, Vice President under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, he became a pro-slavery supporter and died 11 years before the war broke out	John C. Calhoun	95%
An outspoken secessionist, he committed suicide only a couple months after the surrender at Appomattox	Edmund Ruffin	22%
Published "De Bow's Review" in the Antebellum Years and worked for the Confederate Treasury during the war	James De Bow	16%
Owner of the Charleston Mercury, he served in the House of Representatives and the Senate, and is credited by some as the "Father of Secession"	Robert Barnwell Rhett	14%
Instrumental in helping Alabama secede from the Union; he also later served as a diplomat for the Confederate States	William Lowndes Yancey	13%
After playing a role in helping South Carolina secede from the Union, he served in the Confederate Army and was killed at the Battle of Cold Harbor	Lawrence Keitt	6%
Wrote "An Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery"	Thomas R. R. Cobb	5%
Fled to England after the war ended, but returned and outspokenly defended the Confederacy right until his death in 1881	John S. Preston	3%
Serving in the House of Representatives before the war, he argued to the other representatives to let South Carolina go in peace or else war would come. After the war he became president of the University of South Carolina	William Porcher Miles	3%
Personally encouraged the shelling of Fort Sumter, and later fled to England for a few years after the war ended	Louis T. Wigfall	2%