When america was just a young nation, women were denied rights that men had. Married women could not own land. Also, the women were not entitled to their own money. Up until 1920, women were not allowed to vote, they were expected to focus on their household not politics. Many women accepted how the government was but some abolitionists wanted change.Without the help of women pioneers such as, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Ida B. Wells, the 19th amendment would not have been ratified.
Susan B. Anthony, saw that it was wrong for women to not have the same rights as men. When Anthony was thirty two years old, she went to her first woman's rights convention in Syracuse. Once Susan left she declared "that the right which woman needed above every other, the one indeed which would secure to her all the others, was the right of suffrage.” After that she spent the rest of her life fighting for the right to vote. In Rochester, New York on November 5, 1872, Susan and 14 others illegally voted. All were arrested and paid their bail, except for Susan. This would make a trial to be brought …show more content…
Stanton was married to abolitionist Henry Brewster Stanton. In 1840, the couple went to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, where they were turned away. Female delegates were not welcomed in the convention. The injustice showed Stanton that women needed to pursue equality for themselves before they could help others get it. Stanton helped organize the world’s first women’s rights convention in 1848. She also formed the National Women’s Loyal League with Susan B. Anthony in 1863. Working together they felt as if they could make a change in the government and help women get the rights they deserved. Seven years after the pair got together, they established the National Woman Suffrage Association. Like Anthony, Stanton died before the amendment was
Susan B. Anthony, saw that it was wrong for women to not have the same rights as men. When Anthony was thirty two years old, she went to her first woman's rights convention in Syracuse. Once Susan left she declared "that the right which woman needed above every other, the one indeed which would secure to her all the others, was the right of suffrage.” After that she spent the rest of her life fighting for the right to vote. In Rochester, New York on November 5, 1872, Susan and 14 others illegally voted. All were arrested and paid their bail, except for Susan. This would make a trial to be brought …show more content…
Stanton was married to abolitionist Henry Brewster Stanton. In 1840, the couple went to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, where they were turned away. Female delegates were not welcomed in the convention. The injustice showed Stanton that women needed to pursue equality for themselves before they could help others get it. Stanton helped organize the world’s first women’s rights convention in 1848. She also formed the National Women’s Loyal League with Susan B. Anthony in 1863. Working together they felt as if they could make a change in the government and help women get the rights they deserved. Seven years after the pair got together, they established the National Woman Suffrage Association. Like Anthony, Stanton died before the amendment was