Placeholder Image

Subtitles section Play video

  • Millard Fillmore served as vice president under Zachary Taylor.

  • When Taylor died unexpectedly, Fillmore became the 13th American president.

  • He was, AH, hard worker who loved learning so much that he married his teacher.

  • But he led the country at a difficult time.

  • Voters were sharply divided over slavery.

  • Filmore tried to please everybody by passing a compromise bill that both supported and limited slavery.

  • The bill did not prevent the country's civil war, and it cost.

  • Fillmore is political even today, if you remember him.

Millard Fillmore served as vice president under Zachary Taylor.

Subtitles and vocabulary

Click the word to look it up Click the word to find further inforamtion about it