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Millard Fillmore - Test
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  • 1. When was Millard Fillmore born?
A) March 4, 1809
B) July 4, 1776
C) December 25, 1815
D) January 7, 1800
  • 2. Which political party did Millard Fillmore belong to?
A) Republican
B) Whig
C) Democratic
D) Federalist
  • 3. In which year did Millard Fillmore become the President of the United States?
A) 1820
B) 1890
C) 1850
D) 1920
  • 4. Which state was Millard Fillmore from?
A) Pennsylvania
B) Virginia
C) Ohio
D) New York
  • 5. Which war did Millard Fillmore witness the end of during his presidency?
A) Civil War
B) French and Indian War
C) Mexican-American War
D) Spanish-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) Emancipation Proclamation
B) 13th Amendment
C) Fugitive Slave Act
D) Kansas-Nebraska Act
  • 8. Which abolitionist novel did Millard Fillmore offer to host and support?
A) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
B) The Liberator
C) Uncle Tom's Cabin
D) The Underground Railroad
  • 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) Doctor
B) Farmer
C) Teacher
D) Lawyer
  • 11. What number president of the United States was Millard Fillmore?
A) The 12th
B) The 13th
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) U.S. House of Representatives
B) Mayor of Buffalo
C) Governor of New York
D) Senator from New York
  • 16. What was Millard Fillmore's stance on slavery during his career?
A) He was indifferent to the issue of slavery.
B) He declared it evil but said the federal government could not end it.
C) He supported its expansion into new territories.
D) He believed in immediate abolition by the federal government.
  • 17. Who were Millard Fillmore's rivals for state party leadership?
A) John C. Calhoun and Stephen A. Douglas
B) Thurlow Weed and William H. Seward
C) Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren
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) Minority Leader
C) Speaker of the House
D) Majority Whip
  • 19. Which foreign policy action did Fillmore support during his presidency?
A) Backing Narciso López's filibuster expeditions to Cuba.
B) U.S. Navy expeditions to open trade in Japan.
C) Opposing the annexation of Texas.
D) Supporting French designs on Hawaii.
  • 20. What party did Fillmore join after the Whig Party broke up?
A) Republican Party
B) Know Nothings (American Party)
C) Democratic Party
D) Free Soil Party
  • 21. Who defeated Millard Fillmore in the 1856 presidential election?
A) Millard Fillmore himself
B) John C. Frémont
C) James Buchanan
D) Stephen A. Douglas
  • 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) 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) General Andrew Jackson
B) Martin Van Buren
C) Henry Clay
D) John Quincy Adams
  • 25. How many terms did Millard Fillmore serve in the New York State Assembly?
A) Two two-year terms
B) Four one-year terms
C) One three-year term
D) Three 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) Major
B) Captain
C) General
D) Colonel
  • 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) Third ballot
B) Second ballot
C) First ballot
D) Fourth ballot
  • 30. What did Fillmore establish at the White House?
A) A museum
B) A presidential archive
C) An art gallery
D) The first library
  • 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) Senator Silas Wright.
C) James K. Polk.
D) Willis Hall.
  • 33. When did Millard Fillmore die?
A) March 8, 1874
B) February 10, 1858
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) 1836
B) 1840
C) 1834
D) 1832
  • 35. Who was the influential Massachusetts Senator who took Fillmore under his wing during his time in Washington?
A) Henry Clay
B) John C. Calhoun
C) Daniel Webster
D) John Quincy Adams
  • 36. Which president eventually filled the Supreme Court vacancy after Fillmore's term?
A) Franklin Pierce
B) James Buchanan
C) Abraham Lincoln
D) Millard Fillmore
  • 37. Who did Millard Fillmore correspond with while in Europe?
A) Queen Victoria
B) Dorothea Dix
C) Andrew Donelson
D) John Bright
  • 38. What was the status of Buffalo when Millard Fillmore arrived?
A) Village
B) Metropolis
C) City
D) Town
  • 39. In what year did Millard Fillmore marry Caroline McIntosh?
A) 1874
B) 1860
C) 1858
D) 1856
  • 40. Who did the New York delegation initially support at the 1844 Whig National Convention?
A) Fillmore for vice president.
B) Frelinghuysen for vice president.
C) Clay for president.
D) Seward for vice president.
  • 41. Who led the Perry Expedition to open Japan?
A) Captain John Paul Jones
B) Admiral David Farragut
C) Commodore Matthew C. Perry
D) General Winfield Scott
  • 42. What did Millard Fillmore intend to address in his final annual message?
A) The Compromise of 1850
B) Economic policies
C) Slavery
D) The Mexican-American War
  • 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) 45
B) 47
C) 40
D) 42
  • 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 Senate
D) At the Willard Hotel
  • 46. What role did Fillmore play in the Tariff of 1842?
A) He opposed it strongly.
B) He drafted the entire tariff.
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) Oregon Treaty
B) Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
C) Gadsden Treaty
D) Monroe Doctrine
  • 48. Who did Fillmore support for the Whig nomination instead of seeking it himself in 1846?
A) John Young.
B) Theodore Frelinghuysen.
C) James K. Polk.
D) Silas Wright.
  • 49. How many electoral votes did the Taylor-Fillmore ticket win in the 1848 election?
A) 1,361,393
B) 127
C) 291,501
D) 163
  • 50. Who did Millard Fillmore take as a law clerk in East Aurora?
A) Nathan K. Hall
B) John Quincy Adams
C) Thurlow Weed
D) Andrew Jackson
  • 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) New York
B) Maryland
C) Virginia
D) California
  • 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) John Tyler
B) Henry Clay
C) William Henry Harrison
D) Francis Granger
  • 55. Who stepped into Webster's role as Secretary of State after his death?
A) Scott
B) Fillmore
C) Pierce
D) Everett
  • 56. Which railroad did Fillmore subsidize that connected Chicago to Mobile?
A) The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
B) The Union Pacific Railroad
C) The Transcontinental Railroad
D) The Illinois Central Railroad
  • 57. Who did Millard Fillmore assure was loyal to the Whig Party?
A) William O. Butler
B) Zachary Taylor
C) Henry Clay
D) Lewis Cass
  • 58. Which historian wrote that Fillmore was not a Know Nothing or nativist?
A) Allan Nevins
B) David McCullough
C) Ron Chernow
D) Stephen Ambrose
  • 59. On which ballot was Zachary Taylor nominated as the Whig candidate?
A) First ballot
B) Third ballot
C) Fourth ballot
D) Second ballot
  • 60. Who did Fillmore lead the committee to welcome in Buffalo?
A) John Quincy Adams.
B) Theodore Frelinghuysen.
C) James K. Polk.
D) Henry Clay.
  • 61. Where did Fillmore have an audience with Pope Pius IX?
A) Rome
B) Paris
C) Jerusalem
D) London
  • 62. When did Millard Fillmore's daughter, Mary, die?
A) January 1, 1856.
B) March 30, 1853.
C) July 26, 1854.
D) December 25, 1855.
  • 63. Which infrastructure project did Fillmore support by voting in favor during his time in Congress?
A) Navigation improvements on the Hudson River
B) Construction of the Panama Canal
C) Expansion of the Erie Canal
D) Building a transcontinental railroad
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