Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, A Friendship that Changed the World
Source 7 Exact Quotes
"We hold these truths to be self-evident," proclaimed the Declaration of Sentiments that the delegates produced, "that all men and women are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." What this meant, among other things, was that they believed women should have the right to vote.
Source 4 Stanton & Anthony Meet
(In the Spring of 1851 two women met on a street corner in Seneca Falls, New York - - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a thirty-five year old mother of four boys from the ages of nine to three months, and Susan B. Anthony, a thirty-one year old, unmarried, former school teacher. Immediately drawn to each other, they formed an everlasting and legendary friendship)
Source 1 What Followed Card 2
---> Seneca Falls on the Ontario Plain of western New York State is a delightful, small town, but it is hardly one which would be expected to be the site of the beginning of a social revolution. Such it was to become in 1848, that momentous year when revolutions of a bloodier kind were occurring throughout Europe.
Source 3 Fredrick DOuglas
After Frederick Douglas, an ex-abolitionist, spoke to them about it, they even agreed on that one. Sixty eight women and thirty two men signed a petition in support of the declaration.
Source 5 News Article on opinion of 2's Relationship
Anna Howard Shaw, another suffragist, wrote a description of the relationship between Stanton and Anthony in The Story of a Pioneer: "She [Miss Anthony] often said that Mrs. Stanton was the brains of the new association, while she herself was merely its hands and feet; but in truth the two women worked marvelously together, for Mrs. Stanton was a master of words and could write and speak to perfection of the things Susan B. Anthony saw and felt but could not herself express." This sounds like a good partnership, don't you think?
Source 4 Anthony + Stanton
Anthony often went to Stanton's home and helped take care of these children in order to free her fellow suffragist for the intellectual work of which the latter was so capable.
Source 4 Anthony's Role
Anthony was described as the "Napoleon" of the suffragist movement. Hers was the organizational and tactical genius. She displayed her skill by appearing before every Congress between 1869 and 1906 on behalf of women's suffrage.
Source 7 Ratifying Constitution
August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified, enfranchising all American women and declaring for the first time that they, like men, deserve all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
Source 7 Exact date for 19th admendment
August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified. .
Source 4 Female demonstrators
Female demonstrators surrounded the White House in 1917. They were arrested on charge of obstructing traffic. When jailed, they asserted rights of political prisoners and went on a hunger strike.
Source1 Womens Rights Movement
Formed the National Organization for Women (NOW) and its emergence as a significant political force that the march for women's equality would capture national attention.Women's rights movements are primarily concerned with making the political, social, and economic status of women equal to that of men and with establishing legislative safeguards against discrimination on the basis of sex.
Source 4 Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley exhorted women, "Remember that this is the Negro hour and your first duty is to go through the state and plead his claims."
Source 7 Initial Thoughts
In 1848, a group of abolitionist activists--mostly women, but some men--gathered in Seneca Falls, New York to discuss the problem of women's rights. (They were invited there by the reformers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.)
Source 9 Womens Property Rights
In 1853 Anthony began to campaign for women's property rights in New York state, speaking at meetings, collecting signatures for petitions, and lobbying the state legislature. In 1860, largely as the result of her efforts, the New York State Married Women's Property Bill became law, allowing married women to own property, keep their own wages, and have custody of their children. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton campaigned for more liberal divorce laws in New York.
Source 9 Susan B.
In 1856 Anthony became an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society, arranging meetings, making speeches, putting up posters, and distributing leaflets. She encountered hostile mobs, armed threats, and things thrown at her. She was hung in effigy, and in Syracuse her image was dragged through the streets.
Source 1 American Equal Rights Association.
In 1866 Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony and Lucy Stone established the American Equal Rights Association. The following year, the organisation became active in Kansas where Negro suffrage and woman suffrage were to be decided by popular vote. However, both ideas were rejected at the polls.
Source 9 Labor Activist / Women Vote
In 1868 Anthony encouraged working women from the printing and sewing trades in New York, who were excluded from men's trade unions, to form Workingwomen's Associations. As a delegate to the National Labor Congress in 1868 Anthony persuaded the committee on female labor to call for votes for women and equal pay for equal work, although the men at the conference deleted the reference to the vote.
Source 2 NWSA (1)
In 1868 Stanton and Susan B. Anthony established the political weekly, The Revolution, and the following year the two women formed a new organisation, the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA).
Source 9 Hester V. Case
In 1869 Anthony persuaded the Workingwomen's Association in New York to investigate the case of Hester Vaughn, a poor working woman accused of murdering her illegitimate child. Vaughn was pardoned, and Anthony used the case to point out the different moral standards expected of men and women and the need for women jurors to ensure a fair trial.
Source 6 Formation of NWSA
In 1869, this faction formed a group called the National Woman Suffrage Association and began to fight for a universal-suffrage amendment to the federal Constitution.
Source 9 Prostitution Speech
In 1875 she attacked the "social evil" of prostitution in a speech in Chicago, calling for equality in marriage, in the workplace, and at the ballot box to eliminate the need for women to go on the streets.
Source 9 NAWSA 3
In 1887 the two women's suffrage organizations merged as the National American Woman Suffrage Association with Stanton as president and Anthony as vice-president. Anthony became president in 1892 when Stanton retired. Anthony campaigned in the West in the 1890s to make sure that territories where women had the vote were not blocked from admission to the Union. She attended the International Council of Women at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago.
Source 7 Interesting Fact- (hook maybe)
In 1923, the National Women's Party proposed an amendment to the Constitution that prohibited all discrimination on the basis of sex. The so-called Equal Rights Amendment has never been ratified.
Source 7 The Progressive Campaign for Suffrage
This animosity eventually faded, and in 1890 the two groups merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the organization's first president.) By then, the suffragists' approach had changed. Instead of arguing that women deserved the same rights and responsibilities as men because women and men were "created equal," the new generation of activists argued that women deserved the vote because they were different from men. They could make their domesticity into a political virtue, using the franchise to create a purer, more moral "maternal commonwealth."
Source 6 Exact quotes
SUSAN B ANTHONY "Men their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less." ELIZABETH CADY STANTON "Men say we are ever cruel to each other. Let us end this ignoble record and henceforth stand by womanhood."
Source 7 15th amendment
Some woman-suffrage advocates, among them Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, believed that this was their chance to push lawmakers for truly universal suffrage. As a result, they refused to support the 15th Amendment and even allied with racist Southerners who argued that white women's votes could be used to neutralize those cast by African-Americans.
Source 4 Stanton's Role
Stanton's role was that of thinker and writer. She worked unremittingly for women's movement in all its phases, including divorce reform, birth control, the challenge to religious assumptions which opposed legal rights for women. At the same time, she managed a household of seven children.
Source 4 Anthony Didnt Go to Seneca Falls
Susan B. Anthony did not attend the Seneca Falls convention. When she learned of it, she regarded the proceedings with amusement She herself was a temperance worker, but when she attended a New York State temperance convention and attempted to speak, she was rebuked and told, "The ladies have been invited to listen and learn and not to speak." She immediately formed a female temperance society and perhaps became more amenable to the feminist cause.
Source 9 Labor Activist
Susan B. Anthony's paper The Revolution, first published in 1868, advocated an eight- hour day and equal pay for equal work. It promoted a policy of purchasing American- made goods and encouraging immigration to rebuild the South and settle the entire country. Publishing The Revolution in New York brought her in contact with women in the printing trades.
Source 7 The Abolitionists and the Suffragists
The Abolitionists and the Suffragists The campaign for women's suffrage began in earnest in the decades before the Civil War. During the 1820s and 30s, most states had extended the franchise to all white men, regardless of how much money or property they had
Source 2 NWSA (2)
The organisation condemned the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments as blatant injustices to women. The NWSA also advocated easier divorce and an end to discrimination in employment and pay.
Source 3 Spunky personality- Stanton
The spunky young woman who was to spark this social revolution was Elizabeth Cady who was to become Elizabeth Cady Stanton after her marriage. She was born in Johnstown, New York, in the Mohawk Valley to the west of Albany.
Source 5 Famous Quote- Stanton
This was sometimes difficult during her early years because of family responsibilities. "I forged the thunderbolts and she fires them," is a famous quote written by Elizabeth about their friendship.
Source 3 In the END, last Paragraph
Today Seneca Falls is honored with the Women's Rights National Historical Park. The original Wesleyan Chapel has gone through many vicissitudes through the years. It has been an opera house, a movie theater, an automobile garage, an apartment building, a self-service laundromat. In 1985 the National Park Service purchased the derelict building and stripped it of its accretions through the years. Today it is a shell of its original being, but it still commemorates the actions of a brave and rather small group of women and men who gathered here in July of 1848. An adjacent park has a one-hundred-and-forty-foot waterfall which has inscribed on its walls "The Declaration of Sentiments" which Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote and first read here more than 150 years ago
Source 5 Together; Writing
Together they edited and published a woman's newspaper, the Revolution, from 1868 to 1870. In 1869, Anthony and Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association. They traveled all over the country and abroad, promoting woman's rights.
Source 4 Together (:
Together they fought the women's battles of the late nineteenth century. Although many of the early suffragists ardently worked for abolition, they were told after the Civil War to wait until after blacks were enfranchised before passing their own claims for the vote any further. Appeals were made for the downtrodden ex-slave.
Source 4 William Taft
William Howard Taft had cautiously told women to collect more signatures on their petitions before he would take up their cause. Theodore Roosevelt did not include women in his 'progessive" campaign of 1912. Neither did Woodrow Wilson in his agenda. When the latter president ran for re-election 1916 on the slogan "He kept us out of war," suffragists retorted "He kept us out of suffrage."
Source 8 Without her (:
Without Elizabeth Cady Stanton, women would not have the same equal rights as men, today. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was so brave for standing up and fighting for her rights as a woman, especially during a time when women were looked down upon and laughed at for wanting the same rights as men. .
Source 1 Women's Rights Movement
Women's rights movements are primarily concerned with making the political, social, and economic status of women equal to that of men and with establishing legislative safeguards against discrimination on the basis of sex.
Source 7 Disagreements
100 years to win that right, and the campaign was not easy: Disagreements over strategy threatened to cripple the movement more than once. Most of the delegates agreed: American women were autonomous individuals who deserved their own political identities.
Source 1 Seneca Falls
1848; The world's first women's rights convention is held in Seneca Falls, NY, July 19-20. A Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions is debated and signed by 68 women and 32 men, setting the agenda for the women's rights movement that followed . Card 31
Source 8 to begin with...
During the Civil War Elizabeth Cady Stanton concentrated her efforts on abolishing slavery, but afterwards she became even more outspoken in promoting women suffrage
Source 2 Elizabeth Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 - October 26, 1902) was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early woman's movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first women's rights convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized woman's rights and woman's suffrage movements in the United States.
Source 5 Great Team- the 2
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony In 1851, Stanton started working with Susan B. Anthony, a well-known abolitionist. The two women made a great team. Anthony managed the business affairs of the women's rights movement while Stanton did most of the writing.
Source 8 Even though she died
Elizabeth Cady Stanton died in 1902, just 17 years before the Women's Suffrage Amendment was passed in 1919. But this Amendment would in no way have passed without the determination and courage of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Source 3 Elizabeth & Susan
Elizabeth met Susan B. Anthony in 1851 and they became close friends and partners in the fight for womens' rights. Elizabeth, with her dynamic personality and strong speaking ability, was the brains, the public figure in this partnership. Susan was a natural administrator and always encouraged Elizabeth to write more speeches. Susan was single and had more time to devote to traveling and public speaking. She would often help take care of Elizabeth's children while she worked on her ideas and wrote speeches for Susan to deliver. Elizabeth would also go to conventions and deliver speeches whenever she was able to.
Source 3 Elizabeth NWSA presidency
Elizabeth was president of the National American Women's Suffrage Association from 1869 until 1892. During the Civil War she spent much time circulating and signing petitions for emancipation. She finally concluded that the only way to gain womens' suffrage would be to gain a constitutional amendment that would state that the sex of a person would not be a deterrent in voting. Even with this view she continued speaking all over the country about every other issue related to women, but she always brought it back to voting.
Source 3 Seneca Falls
Many people attended the meeting in Seneca Falls, and on the second day, when they had a vote on each item in the declaration, the only one that was opposed, was the one for women to vote.
Source 3 Wrong Women Rights
Not only could women not vote, but they could not even control their own earnings or hold property in their own right. Women had no right to enter into contracts, to sell, or to bequeath anything. They could not go to college or enter the professions. A woman's place was in the home, and, according to Christian theology based on the New Testament, women were inferior to men and were not to be heard in public. If divorce were to occur, the children and all property belonged to the husband. A widow was often faced with destitution upon her husband's death since she was left with no legacy or property under the law—since these devolved upon a son or a male relative.
Source 7 Overview
On Election Day in 1920, millions of American women exercised their right to vote for the first time. It took activists and reformers nearlyut on
