Chapter 13

A law passed by the state saying that state is leaving the United States is a __________________________________________.

• Fire-Eaters

• Secession Ordinance

• Civil War

• Abolitionists

The only president of the Confederate States of America was ________________________.

• Donald Trump

• Abraham Lincoln

• Joe Biden

• Jefferson Davis

An abolitionist who led the raid of the arsenal at Harper’s Ferry was  __________________.

• Henry Clay

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Brown

• Jefferson Davis

The Compromise of 1850 was written by ________________________.

• Henry Clay

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Brown

• Jefferson Davis

The war that settled the argument over the state of Texas was _______________________.

• Mexican War

• Civil War

• World War I

• Vietnam War

Southern leaders who wanted the South to leave the United States and become a new nation were called _______________________.

• citizens

• slaves

• fire eaters

• abolitionists

The first state to secede from the Union was ____________________.

• South Carolina

• Tennessee

• Georgia

• Alabama

John Brown raided the arsenal at Harper’s Ferry to ________________________________.

• go fishing

• plant a garden

• fight in the war

• arm the slaves

In the Dred Scott Decision, the Supreme Court said that slaves were __________________.

• property

• free

• lost

• angry

The Confederate States of America was officially formed in _________________________.

• Jackson, Mississippi

• Montgomery, Alabama

• Atlanta, Georgia

• Columbia, South Carolina