CLEP US History II

Answer: E - When former President Theodore Roosevelt ran for the presidency on the Progressive (“Bull Moose”) Party ticket in 1912, he included a promise to secure women’s suffrage as one of the components of his campaign platform, making him the first presidential candidate to do so and the most prominent man in the country to champion the cause. Roosevelt had long supported women’s suffrage-he even wrote his 1884 senior thesis at Harvard University on the topic of women’s rights. Also, as a New York State assemblyman, he introduced legislation that would make corporal punishment the penalty for spousal abuse.