 Among leading suffragists this act affected were Harriot Stanton Blatch, Inez Milholland, and Crystal Eastman.These three women, all born in the United States and fighting for the right of American women to gain the vote, had married men who were not American citizens and, as a result of the Act of 1907, had lost their American citizenship.Harriot Stanton Blatch attempted to regain her citizenship by filing a petition of naturalization in 1911.