Susan B. Anthony

During Progressive Era, there were many reforms that occurred, such as Child Labor Reform or Pure Food and Drug Act. Women Suffrage Movement was the last remarkable reform. This movement was fighting about the right of women to vote, which was basically about women’s right movement. Many great leaders – Elizabeth Cad Stanton and Susan B. Anthony - formed the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Although those influential leaders faced hardship during this movement, they never gave up and kept trying their best.

Anthony both were one of the first white women abolitionists and suffragists. They met in 1851 and since then became co-workers in the field of women’s rights and abolitionism. Elizabeth comparable to the other women in that period gained formal education, while Anthony originated from Quaker family and had been influenced by her abolitionist father. They both were active in abolitionist group Garrisonian along with known men abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass and Parker Pillsbury. Stanton participated at World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840 jointly with Garrison and she was denied to give an official speech due to her sex and requested to sit in back part a part from the view of present men.

Women had no rights so, there were two women who fought for Women’s Rights. These two women were Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. They were leaders in the women’s rights movement during the 1800s. They both worked hard and passed through obstacles along the way to earn rights for women. This will show Elizabeth’s contribution to the women’s rights movement.

The women of this movement were fighting for something they believed they deserve. Because of the Seneca Falls Convention and the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolution, women were able to express their own opinions. The women’s rights movement led to many different events, impacted other countries, and created a new amendment. The feminist efforts in the mid 1800s were successful enough to allow women to take on occupations and educations they weren’t able to obtain

After protesting in front of the White House, the president decided to support women's suffrage. Soon Congress passed the amendment. Once they passed the amendment, it was the state's decision on whether or not they wanted to ratify it. Finally in 1920, women won the right to vote. Paul was still not satisfied, she spent the rest of her life working on a new Constitutional Amendment, known as the Equal Rights Amendment.

In this text piece Susan shows courage for a nation. One example of Susan showing courage towards this nation is when the author said, “Although Anthony lost, the trial was a turning point in the struggle for women’s suffrage. Until then, people had ridiculed Anthony as an old maid who wanted to upset the traditional authority of men. But the courage she had shown at her trial won her new respect. Gradually, public opinion swung in her favor.

Flags flew at half mast, and by then everyone had heard Coretta Scott King’s “voice”. Her story inspiring, yet her fight for all people and peace even more impressive. Scott King’s efforts in not just the Civil Rights movement, but for all, in general, has impacted so people and their lives. As an article in the New Lady stated, “Women have been the backbone of the whole Civil Rights movement... Women have been the ones who have made it possible for the movement to be a mass movement.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s refusal to compromise on Women’s Rights inspired many other women to follow her example and led to an important change in the history of the United States, and that is suffrage for women. Throughout history, women tended to keep getting less and less rights. Roman women had almost as many rights as men, and had many of the rights that women in the seventeenth century were denied. Married women had the right to enter into contracts and own and dispose of property, as well as having certain limited rights.

League members were motivated by their experiences as mothers, those experiences embolden them to claim a voice (Shulte 4). Women were not only doing the things they did for themselves but also for their children and to better their future. The League of Women Voters fought for women’s new found right and tried to get more

Anthony, a women's right activist, she was also the president of the National American Woman's Suffrage Association, she talked to people all around to support her in the moment of women's rights and she boldly decided to vote illegally, which she was then after arrested and fined one hundred

“These two amendments allowed men to vote, but still permitted states to deny the vote to women” (Kirk, G. & Okazawa-Rey, M. 2013). Once they submitted their votes, they immediately had a warrant out for them because women were not able to vote during this time. After they were caught, they were taken to trial, which lasted for a long year (McDavitt 1944). However, the question for women suffrage bubbled up to the service, which proved to legislation that they needed equal rights for women (McDavitt 1944). According to the textbook, Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the Woman Suffrage Association and started working towards getting the women the right to vote (Kirk, G. & Okazawa-Rey, M. 2013).

McClung took part in an international movment for women’s sufrage. This suffrage was aimed at allowing women the right to vote because of the one-man-one vote principal. She was shot down many times but she NEVER gave up witch makes her great. this movement continued to become greatly recognized throughout Canada and more people were moving towards it. In 1910 widows in Alberta were granted municipal franchise although this didnt apply to married women.

Born on February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts, Susan B. Anthony was an abolitionist, public speaker, and suffragist. (biography.com/early-life) She took a stand for women’s equality. In the mid-1840’s, her family was part of the abolitionist movement to help end slavery in Rochester, New York. (biography.com/early-life)

Susan Brownell Anthony once said “ The Older I get , the greatest power I seem to have to help the world; I s am a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain”(Stalcup 4).Susan Anthony- women rights leader. She fought for what she thought was right. She did her best and got what she wanted which was to given women the right to vote.

1. Conditions before the 19th amendment In order to understand the following information, it is important to examine the conditions before the 19th amendment was passed. This also helps us to understand the resistance that the women’s suffrage movement faced. Prior to the amendment, women were not legally allowed to vote.