Question

Why was Lucy Stone so significant during the Progressive Era?

Answer 1

The best answer is A. She founded the weekly feminist newspaper The Women's Journal and lectured for the American Anti-Slavery Society.

While Lucy Stone played an important role for the suffrage’s cause and abolitionist movement it is known that the National American Woman's Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was the result of the union of the National Woman Suffrage Association and American Woman Suffrage Association, but Lucy was not the first president of it, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the first president of the NAWSA.

Lucy Stone was very talented in writing and public speech and was very significant during the Progressive Era for the weekly feminist newspaper The Women's Journal and her lectures for the American Anti-Slavery Society.