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Millard Fillmore - Test
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  • 1. When was Millard Fillmore born?
A) December 25, 1815
B) January 7, 1800
C) July 4, 1776
D) March 4, 1809
  • 2. Which political party did Millard Fillmore belong to?
A) Democratic
B) Whig
C) Republican
D) Federalist
  • 3. In which year did Millard Fillmore become the President of the United States?
A) 1890
B) 1920
C) 1820
D) 1850
  • 4. Which state was Millard Fillmore from?
A) Virginia
B) Pennsylvania
C) New York
D) Ohio
  • 5. Which war did Millard Fillmore witness the end of during his presidency?
A) Civil War
B) French and Indian War
C) Spanish-American War
D) Mexican-American War
  • 6. Which religious denomination did Millard Fillmore adhere to?
A) Unitarian
B) Catholic
C) Presbyterian
D) Methodist
  • 7. Which legislation signed by Millard Fillmore angered abolitionists?
A) Kansas-Nebraska Act
B) Fugitive Slave Act
C) Emancipation Proclamation
D) 13th Amendment
  • 8. Which abolitionist novel did Millard Fillmore offer to host and support?
A) Uncle Tom's Cabin
B) The Liberator
C) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
D) The Underground Railroad
  • 9. Who did Millard Fillmore marry in 1826?
A) Dolley Madison
B) Abigail Powers
C) Martha Washington
D) Mary Todd
  • 10. What was Millard Fillmore's occupation before becoming President?
A) Doctor
B) Farmer
C) Lawyer
D) Teacher
  • 11. What number president of the United States was Millard Fillmore?
A) The 13th
B) The 14th
C) The 12th
D) The 15th
  • 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) Farming
B) Blacksmithing
C) Carpentry
D) Clothmaking
  • 14. Who was the first president to be a member of the Whig Party while in office?
A) John Tyler
B) Zachary Taylor
C) William Henry Harrison
D) Millard Fillmore
  • 15. What position did Millard Fillmore hold before becoming vice president?
A) Governor of New York
B) Mayor of Buffalo
C) U.S. House of Representatives
D) Senator from 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) John C. Calhoun and Stephen A. Douglas
B) Henry Clay and Daniel Webster
C) Thurlow Weed and William H. Seward
D) Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren
  • 18. What role did Fillmore play in the U.S. House of Representatives?
A) Speaker of the House
B) Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee
C) Minority Leader
D) Majority Whip
  • 19. Which foreign policy action did Fillmore support during his presidency?
A) Backing Narciso López's filibuster expeditions to Cuba.
B) Supporting French designs on Hawaii.
C) Opposing the annexation of Texas.
D) U.S. Navy expeditions to open trade in Japan.
  • 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) Stephen A. Douglas
B) John C. Frémont
C) Millard Fillmore himself
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 advocated for immediate peace without conditions.
C) He supported Southern secession.
D) He denounced secession and supported maintaining the Union by force if necessary.
  • 23. Which university did Millard Fillmore serve as chancellor?
A) Yale University
B) Princeton University
C) University of Buffalo
D) Harvard 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) General Andrew Jackson
D) Martin Van Buren
  • 25. How many terms did Millard Fillmore serve in the New York State Assembly?
A) Four one-year terms
B) Three one-year terms
C) One three-year term
D) Two two-year terms
  • 26. Which Supreme Court justice did Fillmore appoint during his presidency?
A) William O. Douglas
B) Benjamin Robbins Curtis
C) Roger B. Taney
D) John Marshall
  • 27. What rank did Millard Fillmore achieve in the New York Militia?
A) Captain
B) Major
C) Colonel
D) General
  • 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) First ballot
B) Third ballot
C) Fourth ballot
D) Second ballot
  • 30. What did Fillmore establish at the White House?
A) A museum
B) The first library
C) An art gallery
D) A presidential archive
  • 31. What did Clay's 'Omnibus Bill' propose regarding California?
A) Admitting California as a free state.
B) Withdrawing its application for statehood.
C) Making California a slave state.
D) Leaving the decision to popular sovereignty.
  • 32. Who was nominated as the Democratic candidate for governor in 1844?
A) Theodore Frelinghuysen.
B) Willis Hall.
C) Senator Silas Wright.
D) James K. Polk.
  • 33. When did Millard Fillmore die?
A) February 10, 1858
B) March 8, 1874
C) January 20, 1869
D) April 15, 1865
  • 34. In which year did Millard Fillmore first run successfully for the U.S. House of Representatives?
A) 1832
B) 1840
C) 1836
D) 1834
  • 35. Who was the influential Massachusetts Senator who took Fillmore under his wing during his time in Washington?
A) John C. Calhoun
B) Henry Clay
C) Daniel Webster
D) John Quincy Adams
  • 36. Which president eventually filled the Supreme Court vacancy after Fillmore's term?
A) James Buchanan
B) Abraham Lincoln
C) Franklin Pierce
D) Millard Fillmore
  • 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) Village
B) City
C) Metropolis
D) Town
  • 39. In what year did Millard Fillmore marry Caroline McIntosh?
A) 1860
B) 1858
C) 1856
D) 1874
  • 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) Fillmore for vice president.
D) Frelinghuysen for vice president.
  • 41. Who led the Perry Expedition to open Japan?
A) Commodore Matthew C. Perry
B) Captain John Paul Jones
C) General Winfield Scott
D) Admiral David Farragut
  • 42. What did Millard Fillmore intend to address in his final annual message?
A) Slavery
B) Economic policies
C) The Mexican-American War
D) The Compromise of 1850
  • 43. What illness did Abigail Fillmore develop after catching a cold?
A) Influenza.
B) Typhoid fever.
C) Cholera.
D) Pneumonia.
  • 44. What was Fillmore's age when he announced he would not seek reelection in July 1842?
A) 42
B) 45
C) 40
D) 47
  • 45. Where did Millard Fillmore receive formal notification of President Taylor's death?
A) At the Washington Monument
B) At the Willard Hotel
C) In the White House
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) He was not involved in it.
D) His role made him memorable among delegates.
  • 47. Which treaty is associated with Fillmore's administration avoiding a war with Mexico?
A) Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
B) Gadsden Treaty
C) Oregon Treaty
D) Monroe Doctrine
  • 48. Who did Fillmore support for the Whig nomination instead of seeking it himself in 1846?
A) Silas Wright.
B) John Young.
C) Theodore Frelinghuysen.
D) James K. Polk.
  • 49. How many electoral votes did the Taylor-Fillmore ticket win in the 1848 election?
A) 163
B) 1,361,393
C) 127
D) 291,501
  • 50. Who did Millard Fillmore take as a law clerk in East Aurora?
A) Andrew Jackson
B) John Quincy Adams
C) Thurlow Weed
D) Nathan K. Hall
  • 51. Who administered the oath of office to Millard Fillmore when he became vice president?
A) Thurlow Weed
B) Chief Justice Roger B. Taney
C) President Zachary Taylor
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) Cholera.
B) Typhoid fever.
C) Pneumonia.
D) Influenza.
  • 54. Who did Fillmore support for the vice-presidential nomination from the Whigs in 1836?
A) William Henry Harrison
B) Henry Clay
C) John Tyler
D) Francis Granger
  • 55. Who stepped into Webster's role as Secretary of State after his death?
A) Everett
B) Pierce
C) Scott
D) Fillmore
  • 56. Which railroad did Fillmore subsidize that connected Chicago to Mobile?
A) The Transcontinental Railroad
B) The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
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) Lewis Cass
C) William O. Butler
D) Henry Clay
  • 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) Second ballot
B) Third ballot
C) Fourth ballot
D) First ballot
  • 60. Who did Fillmore lead the committee to welcome in Buffalo?
A) James K. Polk.
B) Theodore Frelinghuysen.
C) Henry Clay.
D) John Quincy Adams.
  • 61. Where did Fillmore have an audience with Pope Pius IX?
A) Paris
B) Rome
C) London
D) Jerusalem
  • 62. When did Millard Fillmore's daughter, Mary, die?
A) July 26, 1854.
B) December 25, 1855.
C) January 1, 1856.
D) March 30, 1853.
  • 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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