American women played an important role in the progressive movement in America. Women were involved in many aspects of the progressive movement, providing their ideas, organizations, and strategies. One of the most important movements that women participated in was the Women's Suffrage Movement which was meant to secure women's right to vote, this movement was supported by many activist women one of them was Alice Stone Blackwell a feminist writer in the late 1917s she created the “Answering Objections to Women’s Suffrage (1917)” in which she argued that women should vote because of the same reasons men can vote, she also provides her view of how the government should work, arguing that the people that most obey laws should have a voice when