Elizabeth Cady Stanton Leader in the Movement for Women’s Rights I. Early Life a. Elizabeth was born in 1815 in New York. b. She was one of eleven children and only six survived past their youth. This caused her mother to go into deep depression. c. Elizabeth received a good education for a woman and spent a lot of time of with her father who discussed books and legal issues with her. d. When her only surviving brother from her childhood died‚ her father was very upset and told Elizabeth that he
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universities‚ speak in public‚ or own property‚ and were essentially forced to fight for their place within society. Regardless of these difficulties‚ women gathered strength in numbers and succeeded in establishing permanent social changes. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton began to work together on women’s rights and one of the first issues they worked on were property rights for married women. The Married Woman’s Property Act had been passed in New York Stat in 1848. However‚ there were
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The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 was the first spark to women’s rights movements in Antebellum America. Without this meeting‚ life for women today could be entirely different. Rights that seem obligatory to women today‚ like being able to vote‚ and occupational diversity for women. Women such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Coffin Mott helped to kickstart the innovative ideas produced before and through the convention. The Wesleyan Methodist Church in Seneca Falls was the site of the
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responsibilities‚ a lack of educational and economic responsibilities‚ and the absence of a voice in a political debate. In 1850 Stanton and Susan B. Anthony‚ a teacher in Massachusetts‚ met and made an alliance of a bunch of different women’s rights activists. For most of the 1850s they fought against the denial of basic economic freedoms to women. Anthony and Stanton attempted to include women in the 14th and 15th Amendments. These girls attempted many different things and still came out to be
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led the United States through the process of gaining the new country an identity. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. guided the black community through southern racism‚ and is responsible for the advancement of civil rights in the twentieth century. Susan B. Anthony was the head of the women’s rights movement to gain female suffrage. All of these leaders share something in common; for without the support of the every day people of the world‚ none of the three would have been successful in their goals as
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Paul and Lucy Barnes (Frances O’Conner) join forces with Anna Howard Shaw (Lois Smith) and Carrie Chapman Catt (Anjelica Huston) who are the leaders of NAWSA (National American Woman Suffrage Association) founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. President Woodrow Wilson is adamantly against this movement and abuses his power as president to try and keep women in their place. Eventually Paul and Barnes split from NAWSA to form the NWP (National Woman’s Party) This brilliantly written
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the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions declaring women equal to men set the stage for the Women’s Suffrage Movement." (pg.457) The Women’s Suffrage Movement was a feminist movement that pushed for the right of women to vote. Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the National American Women Suffrage Association. "Although several states allowed women to vote in state and local elections‚ women did not have voting rights in national elections." (pg.458) Many women organized marches of protest in
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fighting for political justice for Americans. For instance‚ the women’s movement began after the female community‚ caught up in the fervor of the awakening‚ realized they too could ’purify’ the country. Several leaders began to emerge such as Susan B Anthony‚ Catharine Beecher‚ Lucretia Mott‚ and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. These women sought to gain women’s suffrage‚ freedom from their male spouses‚ rights to work and to be educated‚ rights to property‚ and representation in the government which they
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were not allowed to vote. In 1870‚ the 15th amendment was passed‚ which allowed African men to have the 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
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and the woman could not do anything without consulting the men. Women were expected to be housewives‚ to raise their children‚ and thinking of a job in a factory was a dream that was never thought impossible. But‚ as years passed‚ women such as Susan B. Anthony‚ Lucretia Mott‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ Lucy Stone‚ and Elizabeth Blackwell began to question why they were at home all day raising the children‚ and why they did not have jobs like the men. This happened between the years of 1776 and 1876‚ when
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