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Susan B. Anthony’s Accomplishments Susan B. Anthony is a one of a kind lady. She didn’t care what people thought of her. She wanted to show the world what she believed in. Susan B. Anthony played a major role in women’s suffrage by being involved in temperance movements when she was young, being a part of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the Nineteenth Amendment was passed fourteen years after her death. Susan B. Anthony was born on a farm in Adams, Massachusetts, on February 15, 1820 (Sochen). Daniel Anthony was her dad. He was a cotton-mill owner. When Susan was old enough she would go work for him after school. Lucy Anthony was her mom (American Eras). The Anthony family were Quakers. Quakers are people that believe
Many of Anthony´s friends saw her as an elitist and formed the American Woman Suffrage Association. An elitist is relating to or supporting the view that a society or system should be led by an elite. It was lead by Lucy Stone (American Eras). Once the Fourteenth Amendment was passed, Anthony was mad. The Amendment said, “Anyone born in the United States they were citizens and that no legal privileges could deny any citizen.” Because of this Anthony and fifteen other women registered to vote illegally at Rochester, New York, on November 1, 1872. Four days later they went to vote. Anthony and the other women were arrested. Anthony went to court on June 17, 1873. She was the only one that had to go to court. She was fined one hundred dollars. She never paid the fine but there were no further actions taken. In 1890, the National Woman Suffrage Association grouped with American Woman Suffrage Association. They then were called National American Woman Suffrage Association. Anthony became the president from 1892 to 1900
By this time only four states had women's suffrage. These states are Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho (UXL Biographies). Because she died, women carried her legacy by getting the Nineteenth Amendment passed on August 20, 1920 (Shenkman). In 1979 and 1980, the government made one dollar coins with a picture of Anthony on it. It was the very first coin to have a picture of a woman (Sochen). Because of all the hard work Anthony did and people telling her that women shouldn’t be equal to men she didn’t give up. She pushed through all the tough times, and because she did that she was able to accomplish her goal. Twenty-six million women were able to vote because of her. No one could ignore women anymore or their problems. They are now treated like everyone else. What she did, didn’t just get women the right to vote. It changed women’s everyday life too. The women got better pay and the place where they worked was safer. The children’s well being was changed too (The Nineteenth
Have you ever wondered how women helped our country? There was and still are women who changed or change the world today. Like Shirley Muldowney,and Rose Will Monroe, or Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony, maybe Hillary Clinton. Some of these women changed little things and some changed big things, but they all made a difference in their own way.
I, Susan B. Anthony, am a transcendentalists and women’s right activist. I was raised in a family where everyone was politically active. My family was active in the abolitionist movement and also the temperance movement. When I was campaigning what the temperance movement it inspired me to fight for women’s rights. The reason being is because when I attended a temperance convention I was denied the right to speak because I was a women. I was infuriated by this. I also realized that if women didn’t earn the right to vote no one would take any women seriously where politics were involved. So i founded the National Women Suffrage Association with activist Elizabeth Stanton. Then I began speaking and protesting all round america. In 1872 I even
Susan B. Anthony was indeed a strong, driven, and disciplined woman who had a great desire and passion to abolish slavery. Upon meeting Elizabeth Cady Stanton she became immersed in the women's rights movement, dedicating her life to obtaining equal rights for all. Many men pursued Susan but she never married, she did not want to be "owned" by a man. Instead she chose to dedicate her entire life to this cause.
Susan Brownell Anthony, being an abolitionist, educational reformer, labor activist, and organizer for woman suffrage, used her intellectual and confident mind to fight for parity. Anthony fought for women through campaigning for women’s rights as well as a suffragist for many around the nation. She had focused her attention on the need for women to reform law in their own interests, both to improve their conditions and to challenge the "maleness" of current law. Susan B. Anthony helped the abolitionists and fought for women’s rights to change the United States with her Quaker values and strong beliefs in equality.
Anthony was a strong leader of the National Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA) . Anthony was arrested in Rochester, New York for voting, claiming that the 14th amendment allowed her to vote. She refused to pay bail and applied for habeas corpus, but her lawyer paid for her to keep the case from Supreme Court, Susan B. Anthony was fined fined $100 (Susan B. Anthony). In 1877, Susan B. Anthony gathered a petition from 26 states with 10,000 signatures, but congress snickered at her. After all of Susan B. Anthony’s hard fighting in 1920 all American women were able to vote with the Nineteenth Amendment, also know as the Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony believed that women should have the same rights as men. She fought for this right in many different ways, but she is most famous for showing civil disobedience by voting illegally. Unfortunately, Anthony fought all her life for women’s rights, but her dreams were not fulfilled until 14 years after she died (“Susan” Bio).
“Speech after Being Convicted of Voting in the 1872 Presidential Election”, she discusses women's suffrage and converses over the fact that she had a right to vote and did not violate the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. Anthony’s purpose in writing the speech was to persuade the audience that she did not commit a crime in order to show that women deserve equality. Expressions of fierce diction that Anthony manipulates throughout the text are “whole people”, “union”, and “posterity” (Anthony). She exercises concise and strong diction, which supports her ethos, unites her audience, and shows that she is educated just as well as any man. If she is well educated just like the men in her time, then why do women not have the right to vote and not have equality?
In 1863 Anthony and Stanton organized a Women's National Loyal League to support and petition for the Thirteenth Amendment outlawing slavery. They went on to campaign for full citizenship for women and people of any race, including the right to vote, in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. They were bitterly disappointed and disillusioned when women were excluded. Anthony continued to campaign for equal rights for all American citizens
Susan B. Anthony was a prominent women’s rights activist and a social reformer. She dedicated her life to spread awareness of the danger and unfairness of social inequalities and slavery. She helped creating or advocating many US and International organizations. She lobbied the creation of laws to protect the rights of citizens regardless of their ethnicity or gender. She was "one of the most loved and hated women in the country. "Her opponents often described her as "nsexed, an unnatural creature that did not function as a true woman, one who devoted her life to a husband” (Barry). She passed away
However in the mid 1800’s women began to fight for their rights, and in particular the right to vote. In July of 1848 the first women's rights conventions was held in Seneca Falls, New York. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was tasked with drawing up the Declaration of Sentiments a declaration that would define and guide the meeting. Soon after men and women signed the Declaration of Sentiments, this was the beginning of the fight for women’s rights. 1850 was the first annual National Women’s rights convention which continued to take place through to upcoming years and continued to grow each year eventually having a rate of 1000 people each convention. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were the two leaders of the Women’s Rights Movement, in 1869 they formed the National Woman suffrage Association with it’s primary goal being to achieve voting by Congressional Amendment to the Constitution. Going ahead a few years, in 1872 Susan B. Anthony was arrested for voting in the nation election, nevertheless, she continued to fight for women’s rights the rest of her life. It wouldn’t be until 1920 till the 19th amendment would be
Susan B. Anthony was born February 15,1820 in Adams Massachusetts, She was the daughter to a cotton mill owner, who was a liberal Quaker. Susan's father taught her the ideas of self-support, self-discipline,principled convictions, and belief in self worth. Reform was very active in the Anthony home, both Mother and Father were strong believers in temperance and women's rights. Fighting for civil rights was in her blood. Susan's father even employed teachers in his own home. Growing up Susan had only known the Quaker life style were men and women spoke equally.
Anthony chose to participate in civil disobedience to protest for women’s rights. In 1851, Anthony attended an anti-slavery conference, where she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Anthony was inspired to fight for women 's rights while she fought against the use of alcohol (“Susan” Bio). Susan B. Anthony was one of the strongest advocates of women’s rights, and is a representative figure of politically oriented types of feminist politics (Halsall). Anthony was denied a chance to speak at a temperance movement conference because of her being a women, she then decided that no one would ever take a woman seriously unless they had a right to vote. In 1852, Anthony and Stanton established the Women’s New York State Temperance Society. Anthony traveled to many places to campaign on women’s behalf (“Susan” Bio). In 1872, Anthony was arrested for casting an illegal vote in the presidential election. She was fined $100 but refused to pay (Halsall). A warrant went out for Anthony after a poll watcher filed a complaint. Anthony was charged for voting in a congressional election “without having a lawful right to vote and in violation of a section 19 of an Act of Congress.” At the hearing on November 29th, Anthony was questioned by her lawyer and was able to tell why she believed she had the right to vote, as authorized by the 14th amendment; therefore, she was not guilty of willingly and knowingly casting an illegal vote (Dismore). Susan B. Anthony became a courageous leader in the
Nonetheless, this reform of women did not halt to the rejection, nor did they act in fear. The CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION states: “One of the main leaders of the women’s suffrage movement was Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906). Brought up in a Quaker family, she was raised to be independent and think for herself. She joined the abolitionist movement to end slavery. Through her abolitionist efforts, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1851. Anthony had not attended the Seneca Falls Convention, but she quickly joined with Stanton to lead the fight for women’s suffrage in the United
In 1853 Anthony campaigned for women's property rights in New York State, speaking at meetings, collecting signatures for petitions, and lobbying the state legislature. Anthony had passed around petition which involved married women and their right to own property and women’s suffrage. She addressed the National Women’s Rights Convention in 1854 to urge more campaigns for greater support. By 1856 Anthony became a public figure for the American Anti-Slavery Society by arranging meetings, making speeches, putting up posters, and distributing leaflets. In her time she encountered hostile mobs, armed threats, and things thrown at her.
In the year 1873, a speech was given which would change America and women’s rights forever. For one of the first times in history, a woman is the one standing up for political and social issues during the mid-1800’s. Susan B. Anthony was 52 years old when she was fined $100 for casting an illegal ballot during an 1872 presidential election which in turn Anthony refused to pay the fine and fought for the rights of women. Her persistence and eagerness could be heard and felt in the speeches she gave across the country. After her arrest, Anthony gave a speech which was titled "Is it a Crime for a Citizen of the U.S. to Vote?” which approached the inequality that surround the men and women of the United States before 1875. It was time for change and her perseverance came at the right moment. The mutual feeling other women clutched to helped propel her speech and her ideas into action which lead to their being a success in equality and the 19th amendment being added to the Constitution.