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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an early leader of the woman's rights movement, writing the Declaration of Sentiments as a call to arms for female equality.
Played a major role in the movement to obtain voting rights for women. she worked with Susan B. Anthony on the Revolution, a militant weekly paper. The two then formed the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) in 1869. Stanton was the NWSA’s first president - a position she held until 1890. At that time the organization merged with another suffrage group to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Stanton served as the president of the new organization for two years. |
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Susan B. Anthony
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To continue her fight for women's suffrage, Susan B. Anthony voted in the November 1872 elections. This was illegal at the time and she was fined $100 for voting. She refused to pay and never did pay the fine. It turned out to be great way to get the issue and spread the word that women should fight for the right to vote. Together with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan founded the National Women's Suffrage Association in 1869. It was through this organization that Anthony would work to get women the right to vote. She devoted the next 37 years and the rest of her life to this effort. She would make considerable progress, but it would take another 14 years after she died for women to get the right to vote.
On August 18, 1920 the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified to the Constitution. It said everyone had the right to vote regardless of gender. Susan had first introduced this amendment in 1878. |
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John C. Calhoun |
John C. Calhoun was an American congressman, secretary of war, seventh vice president, senator and secretary of state. He championed states' rights and slavery.
He was an outspoken advocate of southern interests whose defense of nullification. The legal theory that states could cancel federal laws that they believed threatened their welfare made him one of the nation's leading proponents of the states' rights doctrine. |
