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