clean. In the late 1800s‚ women began to fight for their rights as individuals. They decided that they did not want to just be submissive wives. They wanted to have political positions and government roles. People such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ events such as the Cult of True Womanhood and the meeting at Seneca Falls‚ and the impacts such as gender equality and female government roles summarize the women’s suffrage movement. There were many historical events that caused and progressed
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Susan B. Anthony‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ Ida B. Wells‚ and Alice Paul all are household names‚ and the former has secured her place on the American silver dollar. Anthony is known for her role in the foundation of the National American Woman Suffrage Association‚ or NAWSA‚ an organization that she eventually became the second president of. Born in 1820‚ she grew up in a Quaker family‚ her ideals grounded in the belief that women‚ in all aspects‚ should be equal to men. In 1853‚ she joined a campaign
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a celebrated right. Yet not everyone had the freedom that was so treasured. Some people had to keep fighting for the freedom long after the Revolutionary War. Frederick Douglas‚ in his speech‚ “What to the slave is the fourth of July” and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in her Declaration of Sentiments of the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention‚ share stories and explain how two groups of people‚ slaves and women‚ fight for their individual freedom. Both authors wrote two different pieces for different
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through her acquaintance with Cady after the two were introduced by Amelia Bloomer. The first convention she attended was the Syracuse Convention in 1852. In 1866‚ Anthony and Cady worked together and founded the American Equal Rights Association. Their hard efforts started to pay off in 1869‚ when Wyoming became the first state to allow women to vote. The 1870s for Anthony were spent campaigning for women’s suffrage in the West. 1881-1885 were spent working with Cady and Matilda Joslin Gage to publish
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The women’s suffrage movement was full of brilliant political strategist who with their knowledge of the intricate government made their purpose and goals achievable. It was mainly lead by civil rights activists‚ propagandists‚ and writers. Their contribution was ultimately leading for their right to vote‚ and to run for office. This lead America to have more diversity with the people who were voting. The first women’s rights organization formed the International Counsel of Women (ICU). Since
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a petition in favor of leaving out the word " male" in the 14th amend-merit‚ and worked with the national woman suffrage association to induce congress to secure to her sex the right of voting. In 1867 she went to Kansas with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone‚ and there obtained 9‚000 votes in favor of woman suffrage. Anthony’s experience with the teacher’s union‚ temperance and antislavery reforms‚ and Quaker upbringing‚ laid fertile ground for a career in women’s rights
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likely how women of that era felt about their position in government or anywhere else for that matter. Many women were involved in this reform movement such as the Grimke sisters‚ Susan B. Anthony‚ Lucretia Mott‚ and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. According to Document I‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton made this statement at Seneca Falls on August 2‚ 1848. “…But we are assembled to protest against a form of government‚ existing without the consent of the governedвЂâ€to declare our right to be free as
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Susan B Anthony discovered a sort of liberating partnership they could forge. Anthony found that the temperance movements they confined themselves and did not expect an unequal rights. In 1869 Anthony and Stanton was distinct from equal rights movement. During the civil war Elizabeth Cady Stanton concentrated her efforts on abolishing slavery‚ afterward she was more out spoken in promoting women suffrage. In the 1860s‚ the feminist movement moved to New Zealand. Muller noted that men and women
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right to vote. Women had realized that it was unfair for slaves to be able to vote‚ and not women. It specifically caught the attention of‚ Susan B. Anthony‚ Lucretia Mott‚ and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Later‚ in 1848 the Seneca Falls Convention was held. The convention was held by‚ Lucretia Mott‚ and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The convention was about women’s rights. Women were inspired to change the way they were treated. After the convention‚ many other conventions about women’s suffrage were held
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society. Women’s contributions to society‚ the work force‚ and their increasing intelligence‚ allowed them the right to vote. Many women throughout this time period before and after have fought for women’s suffrage in many different ways. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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