The Women's Rights Movement (1848-1998)

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Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in 1815 and died in 1902. During
the eighty-seven years of her life she accomplished many goals and over
came numerous obstacles. Elizabeth attended Emma Willard's School in Troy
where she obtained her education to the fullest extent possible for girls
in those days. She was a suffragist and Quaker abolitionist. In 1840 she
was chosen as a delegate to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London,
but was banned because women were not aloud to vote. The year 1848 was a
tremendous year for Elizabeth Cady Stanton, for this was the year that the
first Women's Rights Convention was ever held. It was put on by Elizabeth
with the aid of a few close friends that shared her opinion and beliefs of
how women were treated. Though Elizabeth was busy working towards her
goals within the movement she still found time to be a full-time wife and
mother of many children. Elizabeth Cady Stanton lived her life to the
fullest, working towards her ...

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the first to realize that signatures on a
petition were necessary in order to get the men in government to hear the
grievances of women. After figuring out this useful fact she and her
captains went out to collect as many signatures on as many petitions as
possible. In 1854 Susan and her captains took the petitions to the New
York legislature, gaining women the right to own their own property.
However, seventy-two years later, the 19th Amendment, in 1920, gave women
the right to vote. It is now called the Anthony Amendment.

Women's Suffrage

The battle for Women's Suffrage began one afternoon, July 13, 1848
to be exact, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton was invited to have tea with a few
of ...

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