AHC: Something Monumental Happen During the Fillmore Presidency

Millard Fillmore is remembered in modern American political discourse for being incredibly obscure. Therefore, your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to make something monumental happen during the Fillmore presidency such that it is remembered in the coming centuries.
 
Millard Fillmore is remembered in modern American political discourse for being incredibly obscure. Therefore, your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to make something monumental happen during the Fillmore presidency such that it is remembered in the coming centuries.

He is assassinated by an angry abolitionist.
 

Grimbald

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Filmore was an abolitionist, just an ineffective one.

If he had tried to abolish slavery... that would be remembered.
 
If Fillmore died while in office, say in August of 1850, we would have a new election in 1850 according to the system that was in place at the time.
That would have surely changed American politics since all elections from that point on would be in between OTL election years.
 
Have the debate in Congress over the Compromise of 1850 be more well known or have Fillmore be more connected with coverage of it in primary education.
 
Have the Compromise of 1850 break down altogether. The ACW breaks out ten years early, and Fillmore is rememebered as The Man Who Saved the Union.
 
He opened up Japan. That's monumental --- though, more so for another country. :p

There's some kind of diplomatic incident, Japan declares war, and Fillmore thinks "Here's something to get everyone's mind off of slavery!" and conquers Japan.

All hail Millard the Conqueror.
 
There's some kind of diplomatic incident, Japan declares war, and Fillmore thinks "Here's something to get everyone's mind off of slavery!" and conquers Japan.

All hail Millard the Conqueror.

Thus Fillmore decides to move his capital to Edo and crowns himself the Emperor of Japan. During following decades the USA becomes more Asian oriented while losing slowly its areas in America to Britain and later Canada. By 2013 Fillmore is remembered as the founder of modern Japan.
 
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