The first women's rights convention in 1848 produced the 'Declaration of Sentiments,' a document modeled on the Declaration of Independence that demanded equal rights for women, including the right to vote.
To pressure a reluctant President Wilson, suffragists known as the 'Silent Sentinels' held a continuous, non-violent picket in front of the White House for over two years.
Woodrow Wilson won his 1916 presidential re-election with the slogan 'He kept us out of war,' only to ask Congress to declare war on Germany just a month after his second inauguration.
In a major historical irony, the United States never joined the League of Nations, the international peacekeeping organization that its own president, Woodrow Wilson, had championed after World War I.
