 Denied a voice in politics and the use of their native Slovak language in public places by the ruling Magyars in Hungary, Slovaks in America became socially and politically active, establishing self-help societies and fraternal organizations (such as Sokol, the Slovak League of America and First Catholic Slovak Union), founding newspapers (such as Slovensky dennik and the Jednota), and lobbying the government of the United States—especially the Administration of President Woodrow Wilson—to press for greater freedom for Slovaks suffering under Magyar oppression.In 1910, Slovak and other ethnic leaders in the United States successfully petitioned federal authorities to classify a person by their language rather than country of origin.On the president's orders, new forms replaced the old ones, and Slovaks were no longer classified as "Austrians" or "Hungarians" in the 1910 U.S. Census.