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In 1916 Montana elected the first woman to Congress, 35 year old Jeannette Rankin.

That women could still not vote in New York remained enormously frustrating to Lella Secor, especially when she watched Negroes and half drunk foreigners going into the polls.

By July 1915 more than a thousand were affected by Polio in New York City with 238 dead and the epidemic was just getting started

On January 25, 1915 Woodrow Wilson made the first ever transcontinental telephone call, from Washington to San Francisco

Most whites remained either oblivious of or hostile to the plight of African Americans.

Most powerful men believed that politics, foreign relations, and other worldly affairs were no place for women

There was a real danger to any president appearing in public. William McKinley's assassination was less than 15 years ago and Theodore Roosevelt had been shot during the last presidential campaign.

Henry Ford was now a celebrity and many on both sides of the political aisle such he should run for president.

In a world without air conditioning, Washington in August was not a desirable place to be.

The business community supported implementing a draft. One business leader said "It would teach workers how to obey and the necessity of doing what they are told."

Jane Addams believed the only effective weapon against militarism was feminism

"Every woman needs a good beating once a week."

The song "I Didn't Raise My Son to Be a Soldier " became a massive hit for months.

Franklin Roosevelt described himself as a fifth cousin of Theodore Roosevelt by blood and a nephew by law(FDR married TR's niece Eleanor)

It was now the Democrats, not the Republicans who were truly progressives and had carried out the policies which progressive people of this country have desired.

Millions of Americans had no strong feelings about the war. All they knew was that Europe was an ocean away.

Woodrow Wilson believed that separating the races was best to avoid "friction".

Because of Theodore Roosevelt's support of the war (WWI) many people saw him as an out of touch warmonger.

Many feared that the Boy Scouts of America were training the boys of America to be soldiers.

By 1914 the automobile was no longer a toy for the rich but a valuable addition to modern living.

Woodrow Wilson now began to emerge fully sympathetic to progressive causes (excluding women's suffrage and racial issues).

Theodore Roosevelt remained dedicated to minimum wage, immigration, and ending overly aggressive policing. He was now speaking out in support of women's suffrage, prison reform and a garment workers strike.

The new party was a logical culmination of the liberal reform movement it became known as the Progressive Party.

Teddy Roosevelt's new party platform included minimum wage, old age pensions, child labor, women's suffrage, and protection of women in industries.