Millard Fillmore - Quiz
Millard Fillmore
  • 1. When was Millard Fillmore born?
A) March 4, 1809
B) January 7, 1800
C) December 25, 1815
D) July 4, 1776
  • 2. Which political party did Millard Fillmore belong to?
A) Whig
B) Republican
C) Democratic
D) Federalist
  • 3. In which year did Millard Fillmore become the President of the United States?
A) 1850
B) 1890
C) 1920
D) 1820
  • 4. Which state was Millard Fillmore from?
A) Virginia
B) New York
C) Ohio
D) Pennsylvania
  • 5. Which war did Millard Fillmore witness the end of during his presidency?
A) French and Indian War
B) Civil War
C) Mexican-American War
D) Spanish-American War
  • 6. Which religious denomination did Millard Fillmore adhere to?
A) Presbyterian
B) Catholic
C) Unitarian
D) Methodist
  • 7. Which legislation signed by Millard Fillmore angered abolitionists?
A) 13th Amendment
B) Fugitive Slave Act
C) Kansas-Nebraska Act
D) Emancipation Proclamation
  • 8. Which abolitionist novel did Millard Fillmore offer to host and support?
A) Uncle Tom's Cabin
B) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
C) The Liberator
D) The Underground Railroad
  • 9. Who did Millard Fillmore marry in 1826?
A) Abigail Powers
B) Martha Washington
C) Dolley Madison
D) Mary Todd
  • 10. What was Millard Fillmore's occupation before becoming President?
A) Lawyer
B) Farmer
C) Doctor
D) Teacher
  • 11. What number president of the United States was Millard Fillmore?
A) The 13th
B) The 12th
C) The 14th
D) The 15th
  • 12. Who succeeded Zachary Taylor as president in 1850?
A) William Henry Harrison
B) James Buchanan
C) Franklin Pierce
D) Millard Fillmore
  • 13. What trade did Millard Fillmore initially apprentice in?
A) Blacksmithing
B) Carpentry
C) Farming
D) Clothmaking
  • 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) Governor of New York
C) U.S. House of Representatives
D) Mayor of Buffalo
  • 16. What was Millard Fillmore's stance on slavery during his career?
A) He was indifferent to the issue of slavery.
B) He supported its expansion into new territories.
C) He believed in immediate abolition by the federal government.
D) He declared it evil but said the federal government could not end it.
  • 17. Who were Millard Fillmore's rivals for state party leadership?
A) Thurlow Weed and William H. Seward
B) Henry Clay and Daniel Webster
C) Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren
D) John C. Calhoun and Stephen A. Douglas
  • 18. What role did Fillmore play in the U.S. House of Representatives?
A) Minority Leader
B) Majority Whip
C) Speaker of the House
D) Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee
  • 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) Democratic Party
B) Know Nothings (American Party)
C) Republican Party
D) Free Soil Party
  • 21. Who defeated Millard Fillmore in the 1856 presidential election?
A) John C. Frémont
B) Millard Fillmore himself
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 supported Southern secession.
C) He advocated for immediate peace without conditions.
D) He denounced secession and supported maintaining the Union by force if necessary.
  • 23. Which university did Millard Fillmore serve as chancellor?
A) University of Buffalo
B) Yale University
C) Harvard University
D) Princeton 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) Four one-year terms
C) Two two-year terms
D) One three-year term
  • 26. Which Supreme Court justice did Fillmore appoint during his presidency?
A) William O. Douglas
B) John Marshall
C) Roger B. Taney
D) Benjamin Robbins Curtis
  • 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) First ballot
B) Fourth ballot
C) Third ballot
D) Second ballot
  • 30. What did Fillmore establish at the White House?
A) A museum
B) An art gallery
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) Leaving the decision to popular sovereignty.
C) Admitting California as a free state.
D) Making California a slave state.
  • 32. Who was nominated as the Democratic candidate for governor in 1844?
A) James K. Polk.
B) Theodore Frelinghuysen.
C) Willis Hall.
D) Senator Silas Wright.
  • 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) 1836
B) 1840
C) 1832
D) 1834
  • 35. Who was the influential Massachusetts Senator who took Fillmore under his wing during his time in Washington?
A) Daniel Webster
B) John Quincy Adams
C) John C. Calhoun
D) Henry Clay
  • 36. Which president eventually filled the Supreme Court vacancy after Fillmore's term?
A) Franklin Pierce
B) Abraham Lincoln
C) James Buchanan
D) Millard Fillmore
  • 37. Who did Millard Fillmore correspond with while in Europe?
A) Dorothea Dix
B) Andrew Donelson
C) Queen Victoria
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) 1856
B) 1860
C) 1858
D) 1874
  • 40. Who did the New York delegation initially support at the 1844 Whig National Convention?
A) Seward for vice president.
B) Frelinghuysen for vice president.
C) Fillmore for vice president.
D) Clay for 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) Slavery
B) The Compromise of 1850
C) The Mexican-American War
D) Economic policies
  • 43. What illness did Abigail Fillmore develop after catching a cold?
A) Typhoid fever.
B) Cholera.
C) Pneumonia.
D) Influenza.
  • 44. What was Fillmore's age when he announced he would not seek reelection in July 1842?
A) 45
B) 42
C) 40
D) 47
  • 45. Where did Millard Fillmore receive formal notification of President Taylor's death?
A) At the Senate
B) At the Washington Monument
C) In the White House
D) At the Willard Hotel
  • 46. What role did Fillmore play in the Tariff of 1842?
A) He drafted the entire tariff.
B) His role made him memorable among delegates.
C) He opposed it strongly.
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) Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
D) Gadsden Treaty
  • 48. Who did Fillmore support for the Whig nomination instead of seeking it himself in 1846?
A) Theodore Frelinghuysen.
B) Silas Wright.
C) James K. Polk.
D) John Young.
  • 49. How many electoral votes did the Taylor-Fillmore ticket win in the 1848 election?
A) 1,361,393
B) 291,501
C) 127
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) William H. Seward
B) Chief Justice Roger B. Taney
C) President Zachary Taylor
D) Thurlow Weed
  • 52. Which state's electoral votes did Fillmore and Donelson win in the 1856 election?
A) Maryland
B) California
C) Virginia
D) New York
  • 53. What caused Millard Fillmore's daughter Mary to die?
A) Pneumonia.
B) Typhoid fever.
C) Influenza.
D) Cholera.
  • 54. Who did Fillmore support for the vice-presidential nomination from the Whigs in 1836?
A) Henry Clay
B) John Tyler
C) Francis Granger
D) William Henry Harrison
  • 55. Who stepped into Webster's role as Secretary of State after his death?
A) Everett
B) Pierce
C) Fillmore
D) Scott
  • 56. Which railroad did Fillmore subsidize that connected Chicago to Mobile?
A) The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
B) The Illinois Central Railroad
C) The Transcontinental Railroad
D) The Union Pacific Railroad
  • 57. Who did Millard Fillmore assure was loyal to the Whig Party?
A) William O. Butler
B) Zachary Taylor
C) Lewis Cass
D) Henry Clay
  • 58. Which historian wrote that Fillmore was not a Know Nothing or nativist?
A) Ron Chernow
B) David McCullough
C) Stephen Ambrose
D) Allan Nevins
  • 59. On which ballot was Zachary Taylor nominated as the Whig candidate?
A) Third ballot
B) Fourth ballot
C) First ballot
D) Second 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) Jerusalem
B) Paris
C) Rome
D) London
  • 62. When did Millard Fillmore's daughter, Mary, die?
A) March 30, 1853.
B) January 1, 1856.
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) Building a transcontinental railroad
B) Expansion of the Erie Canal
C) Construction of the Panama Canal
D) Navigation improvements on the Hudson River
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