By 1916, the women’s suffrage movement had been gathering momentum for decades, starting with the Seneca Falls (N.Y.) Convention in 1848. With the election of Woodrow Wilson to the presidency in 1912, women’s groups, including the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and the National Woman’s Party (NWP), were hopeful that the U.S. Constitution could be amended to grant women the right to vote. Wilson, however, despite his generally progressive tendencies, appeared to be lukewarm on the issue of woman suffrage, much to the chagrin of suffragists.