Elizabeth Cady Argumentative Essay

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a phenomenal woman who was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women’s rights movement. Stanton also held the Seneca Falls convention in 1848. Elizabeth was best known for the women’s rights movement. In my essay I will be writing about Elizabeth Stanton’s early life, accomplishments, adulthood, cause of death and the legacy Stanton left.

Stanton was born on November 12, 1815 in Johnstown, New York. Elizabeth’s father Daniel Cady, was a reputed lawyer, a congressman and also the judge of the New York Supreme court. Stanton followed her father's footsteps in women’s rights as she was easily exposed to the legal hurdles of women’s quality. Elizabeth’s mother, Margaret Livingston Cady, came from a wealthy family whose members had included a hero of the American Revolution.The Cady's had eleven children, most of whom did not survive to adulthood. Eleazar Cady, their only son to survive,which died when he was twenty years old. Stanton related her father's feelings at having lost all his male sons. Although, eleven-year-old Elizabeth attempted to comfort him, his reaction was to tell her, "Oh, my daughter, I wish you

were a boy." The experience made young Elizabeth determined to be the equal of any male. She tried hard to please her father by succeeding in areas normally reserved for men.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American social activist, abolitionist, and an important woman in the women's rights movement.

Stanton who was close friends with Susan B. Anthony, another women's rights activists, worked together and helped one another arrange the Seneca Falls Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, 1848. Elizabeth’s speech, The Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 is one of the first steps towards the women's rights movement.One hundred individuals signed in support of the Declaration of Sentiments, 68 women and 32 men. The women, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton organized and lectured at local, state, and national conventions. Including being authors of hundreds of articles in support of the women's rights

movement.

In Stanton’s later years, she would often travel to give speeches. Elizabeth called for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution giving women the right to vote. Besides the history of the suffrage movement, Stanton took on the role that religion played in the struggle for equal rights for women. She had argued that the Bible played in denying women their full rights. Elizabeth died October 26, 1902, due to Congestive heart failure. Stanton died at 3 o'clock in the afternoon in her home in New York, United States.

In conclusion, Mrs. Elizabeth Stanton left a great big impact on the United States. If it wasn’t for Elizabeth then, women would not have the rights we have today. She was apart of the few that were brave enough to make all women equal with men. All women's rights leaders will forever leave a legacy in history. Women are equal to men, as men are equal to women.