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