Millard Fillmore - Test
Millard Fillmore
  • 1. When was Millard Fillmore born?
A) March 4, 1809
B) January 7, 1800
C) July 4, 1776
D) December 25, 1815
  • 2. Which political party did Millard Fillmore belong to?
A) Whig
B) Federalist
C) Republican
D) Democratic
  • 3. In which year did Millard Fillmore become the President of the United States?
A) 1920
B) 1820
C) 1890
D) 1850
  • 4. Which state was Millard Fillmore from?
A) Virginia
B) Pennsylvania
C) Ohio
D) New York
  • 5. Which war did Millard Fillmore witness the end of during his presidency?
A) French and Indian War
B) Mexican-American War
C) Spanish-American War
D) Civil War
  • 6. Which religious denomination did Millard Fillmore adhere to?
A) Methodist
B) Unitarian
C) Catholic
D) Presbyterian
  • 7. Which legislation signed by Millard Fillmore angered abolitionists?
A) Emancipation Proclamation
B) Fugitive Slave Act
C) 13th Amendment
D) Kansas-Nebraska Act
  • 8. Which abolitionist novel did Millard Fillmore offer to host and support?
A) The Underground Railroad
B) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
C) Uncle Tom's Cabin
D) The Liberator
  • 9. Who did Millard Fillmore marry in 1826?
A) Abigail Powers
B) Dolley Madison
C) Martha Washington
D) Mary Todd
  • 10. What was Millard Fillmore's occupation before becoming President?
A) Farmer
B) Teacher
C) Doctor
D) Lawyer
  • 11. What number president of the United States was Millard Fillmore?
A) The 14th
B) The 12th
C) The 15th
D) The 13th
  • 12. Who succeeded Zachary Taylor as president in 1850?
A) Millard Fillmore
B) William Henry Harrison
C) James Buchanan
D) Franklin Pierce
  • 13. What trade did Millard Fillmore initially apprentice in?
A) Blacksmithing
B) Farming
C) Carpentry
D) Clothmaking
  • 14. Who was the first president to be a member of the Whig Party while in office?
A) Millard Fillmore
B) Zachary Taylor
C) John Tyler
D) William Henry Harrison
  • 15. What position did Millard Fillmore hold before becoming vice president?
A) Governor of New York
B) U.S. House of Representatives
C) Senator from New York
D) Mayor of Buffalo
  • 16. What was Millard Fillmore's stance on slavery during his career?
A) He declared it evil but said the federal government could not end it.
B) He was indifferent to the issue of slavery.
C) He believed in immediate abolition by the federal government.
D) He supported its expansion into new territories.
  • 17. Who were Millard Fillmore's rivals for state party leadership?
A) John C. Calhoun and Stephen A. Douglas
B) Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren
C) Thurlow Weed and William H. Seward
D) Henry Clay and Daniel Webster
  • 18. What role did Fillmore play in the U.S. House of Representatives?
A) Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee
B) Speaker of the House
C) Majority Whip
D) Minority Leader
  • 19. Which foreign policy action did Fillmore support during his presidency?
A) Opposing the annexation of Texas.
B) U.S. Navy expeditions to open trade in Japan.
C) Supporting French designs on Hawaii.
D) Backing Narciso López's filibuster expeditions to Cuba.
  • 20. What party did Fillmore join after the Whig Party broke up?
A) Republican Party
B) Free Soil Party
C) Know Nothings (American Party)
D) Democratic Party
  • 21. Who defeated Millard Fillmore in the 1856 presidential election?
A) James Buchanan
B) Millard Fillmore himself
C) Stephen A. Douglas
D) John C. Frémont
  • 22. What was Millard Fillmore's position on the Union during the Civil War?
A) He advocated for immediate peace without conditions.
B) He denounced secession and supported maintaining the Union by force if necessary.
C) He supported Southern secession.
D) He remained neutral throughout the conflict.
  • 23. Which university did Millard Fillmore serve as chancellor?
A) Harvard University
B) University of Buffalo
C) Princeton University
D) Yale University
  • 24. Who was the presidential candidate opposed by many Anti-Masons during Millard Fillmore's early political career?
A) Henry Clay
B) John Quincy Adams
C) Martin Van Buren
D) General Andrew Jackson
  • 25. How many terms did Millard Fillmore serve in the New York State Assembly?
A) Three one-year terms
B) Two two-year terms
C) One three-year term
D) Four one-year terms
  • 26. Which Supreme Court justice did Fillmore appoint during his presidency?
A) William O. Douglas
B) John Marshall
C) Benjamin Robbins Curtis
D) Roger B. Taney
  • 27. What rank did Millard Fillmore achieve in the New York Militia?
A) Colonel
B) General
C) Major
D) Captain
  • 28. Who was initially expected to be nominated as Taylor's vice-presidential running mate?
A) Solomon Foot
B) Abbott Lawrence
C) John A. Collier
D) Millard Fillmore
  • 29. On which ballot did Millard Fillmore win the vice-presidential nomination?
A) Third ballot
B) First ballot
C) Second ballot
D) Fourth ballot
  • 30. What did Fillmore establish at the White House?
A) A presidential archive
B) The first library
C) An art gallery
D) A museum
  • 31. What did Clay's 'Omnibus Bill' propose regarding California?
A) Making California a slave state.
B) Leaving the decision to popular sovereignty.
C) Admitting California as a free state.
D) Withdrawing its application for statehood.
  • 32. Who was nominated as the Democratic candidate for governor in 1844?
A) Willis Hall.
B) Senator Silas Wright.
C) James K. Polk.
D) Theodore Frelinghuysen.
  • 33. When did Millard Fillmore die?
A) March 8, 1874
B) April 15, 1865
C) January 20, 1869
D) February 10, 1858
  • 34. In which year did Millard Fillmore first run successfully for the U.S. House of Representatives?
A) 1840
B) 1834
C) 1832
D) 1836
  • 35. Who was the influential Massachusetts Senator who took Fillmore under his wing during his time in Washington?
A) Daniel Webster
B) Henry Clay
C) John Quincy Adams
D) John C. Calhoun
  • 36. Which president eventually filled the Supreme Court vacancy after Fillmore's term?
A) Millard Fillmore
B) James Buchanan
C) Franklin Pierce
D) Abraham Lincoln
  • 37. Who did Millard Fillmore correspond with while in Europe?
A) Andrew Donelson
B) John Bright
C) Queen Victoria
D) Dorothea Dix
  • 38. What was the status of Buffalo when Millard Fillmore arrived?
A) Town
B) Village
C) Metropolis
D) City
  • 39. In what year did Millard Fillmore marry Caroline McIntosh?
A) 1860
B) 1874
C) 1856
D) 1858
  • 40. Who did the New York delegation initially support at the 1844 Whig National Convention?
A) Frelinghuysen for vice president.
B) Clay for president.
C) Seward for vice president.
D) Fillmore for vice president.
  • 41. Who led the Perry Expedition to open Japan?
A) Admiral David Farragut
B) Commodore Matthew C. Perry
C) Captain John Paul Jones
D) General Winfield Scott
  • 42. What did Millard Fillmore intend to address in his final annual message?
A) Economic policies
B) The Mexican-American War
C) The Compromise of 1850
D) Slavery
  • 43. What illness did Abigail Fillmore develop after catching a cold?
A) Cholera.
B) Influenza.
C) Typhoid fever.
D) Pneumonia.
  • 44. What was Fillmore's age when he announced he would not seek reelection in July 1842?
A) 45
B) 47
C) 42
D) 40
  • 45. Where did Millard Fillmore receive formal notification of President Taylor's death?
A) In the White House
B) At the Washington Monument
C) At the Willard Hotel
D) At the Senate
  • 46. What role did Fillmore play in the Tariff of 1842?
A) His role made him memorable among delegates.
B) He opposed it strongly.
C) He drafted the entire tariff.
D) He was not involved in it.
  • 47. Which treaty is associated with Fillmore's administration avoiding a war with Mexico?
A) Monroe Doctrine
B) Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
C) Oregon Treaty
D) Gadsden Treaty
  • 48. Who did Fillmore support for the Whig nomination instead of seeking it himself in 1846?
A) James K. Polk.
B) Silas Wright.
C) John Young.
D) Theodore Frelinghuysen.
  • 49. How many electoral votes did the Taylor-Fillmore ticket win in the 1848 election?
A) 291,501
B) 163
C) 1,361,393
D) 127
  • 50. Who did Millard Fillmore take as a law clerk in East Aurora?
A) John Quincy Adams
B) Thurlow Weed
C) Andrew Jackson
D) Nathan K. Hall
  • 51. Who administered the oath of office to Millard Fillmore when he became vice president?
A) President Zachary Taylor
B) Chief Justice Roger B. Taney
C) William H. Seward
D) Thurlow Weed
  • 52. Which state's electoral votes did Fillmore and Donelson win in the 1856 election?
A) California
B) Maryland
C) Virginia
D) New York
  • 53. What caused Millard Fillmore's daughter Mary to die?
A) Pneumonia.
B) Influenza.
C) Typhoid fever.
D) Cholera.
  • 54. Who did Fillmore support for the vice-presidential nomination from the Whigs in 1836?
A) Francis Granger
B) John Tyler
C) William Henry Harrison
D) Henry Clay
  • 55. Who stepped into Webster's role as Secretary of State after his death?
A) Everett
B) Fillmore
C) Pierce
D) Scott
  • 56. Which railroad did Fillmore subsidize that connected Chicago to Mobile?
A) The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
B) The Transcontinental Railroad
C) The Illinois Central Railroad
D) The Union Pacific Railroad
  • 57. Who did Millard Fillmore assure was loyal to the Whig Party?
A) Zachary Taylor
B) Henry Clay
C) Lewis Cass
D) William O. Butler
  • 58. Which historian wrote that Fillmore was not a Know Nothing or nativist?
A) Allan Nevins
B) Ron Chernow
C) David McCullough
D) Stephen Ambrose
  • 59. On which ballot was Zachary Taylor nominated as the Whig candidate?
A) Fourth ballot
B) Second ballot
C) Third ballot
D) First ballot
  • 60. Who did Fillmore lead the committee to welcome in Buffalo?
A) Henry Clay.
B) Theodore Frelinghuysen.
C) James K. Polk.
D) John Quincy Adams.
  • 61. Where did Fillmore have an audience with Pope Pius IX?
A) London
B) Paris
C) Jerusalem
D) Rome
  • 62. When did Millard Fillmore's daughter, Mary, die?
A) March 30, 1853.
B) July 26, 1854.
C) December 25, 1855.
D) January 1, 1856.
  • 63. Which infrastructure project did Fillmore support by voting in favor during his time in Congress?
A) Construction of the Panama Canal
B) Expansion of the Erie Canal
C) Navigation improvements on the Hudson River
D) Building a transcontinental railroad
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