Susan B. Anthony: Biography Of A Woman

Susan B. Anthony
FCS 2831
Biography of a Woman
Allyson Pierce
March 1, 2016

The Life of a Woman

Imagine what the lives of women would be like if our world never evolved. Women would be staying home, not being able to seek what a professional job is, not being able to own property and much more. This would be truly discouraging, wouldn’t it? If this were the case for our society today, there would be a lot of uproar. Women would not be able to voice their opinions, which would have a lot of great ideas kept shut. However, on February 15, 1820, our world be blessed with a women that changed the women’s lives completely. Susan B. Anthony was just like any other girl brought up during this time period, but

Anthony conquered in her life and what was she involved in. So with this being, the purpose of the paper is to define the biography of Susan B. Anthony and what she did for the women in the world. The one word that might arise when Susan B. Anthony is brought up is outspoken. Anthony was a women’s right campaigner, who was in search of making women the same opportunities as the men did. At first she advocated dressing the way women were ‘supposed’ to dress. Anthony did this by cutting her hair and wearing a bloomer (The Susan B. Anthony House, Inc. 2013). A bloomer is a type of clothing that is non-restricted and helps women be able to move. However, this is where it all began. In 1852 Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton became part of the Women’s Rights Movement (The Susan B. Anthony House, Inc. 2013). The reason behind this is became Anthony went to a convention and was told to “Listen and Learn.” While she was brought up to be a Quaker, having someone say this to here was against her upbringing (The Susan B. Anthony House, Inc. 2013). So from that day forward she attended her first women’s

“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). Finally in 1920, the nineteenth amendment was presented and allowed the women in the United States the right to vote (Kirk, G. & Okazawa-Rey, M. (2013). When thinking about how the women felt about not be able to speak up with voting situations is horrible. We are truly blessed that there were women who spoke their mind and changed the women’s lives for the