Susan B. Anthony

Some of the problems with Women’s Rights were that they fought for suffrage. Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were the the first two women to fight for women suffrage. NAWSA helped the women push for suffrage which were the women's right to vote. NAWSA helped President Wilson to get the suffrage law passed. Some of the…

Do you know who sparked Susan B. Anthony into women’s suffrage protests? She was the writer of “Declaration of Sentiments of the Seneca Falls Woman’s Rights Convention,” Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Do you know who John Adams’s wife is? She was the writer of “Letter to John Adams,” Mrs. Abigail Adams. These two stories are fighting for the same liberty, women’s suffrage, but they use different tones and the writers come from different backgrounds which can influence their opinions and ideas.…

though. Moreover, the 15th Amendment did not specify that women were excluded, so when some women, among those being Susan B. Anthony, tried to vote under the ambiguous wording, they were arrested. Furthermore, the major women figures, Stanton, Anthony, and Lucy Stone were split apart due to their differences of opinion on supporting the 14th and 15th Amendments. Stanton and Anthony separated and formed the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) which supported enfranchising women, but…

The Progressive Era was a time in United States history when big changes were beginning to occur all over. Major campaigns began that focused on reforms such as temperance, abolition, women 's rights, and asylum and prison reformation. Because of great pioneers that took the time to make a difference, our country is so much better and stronger. What is reform? Reform is to make changes in something in order to improve it. Every individual that was involved in the reformation era had one thing in…

Their main reasoning was the right to vote. Which was granted to them in 1918 if you were over the age of 30, and then in 1928 if you were over the age of 21. There was a National Women’s Rights Convention held in 1850. It was lead and held by Susan B. Anthony one of…

The history of a woman’s role in American society has always been a dynamic and constantly changing one. The Cult of Domesticity and Republican Motherhood were prominent ideas in the 18th and early 19th centuries that encouraged women to stay home and perform menial tasks. This notion of separate spheres between men and women began to be contested as the 19th century progressed. Beginning with the Seneca Falls convention in 1848 and continuing throughout the Gilded Age, society’s views on women…

The nineteenth amendment is to ensure women their right to vote. The struggle for victory took decades of protest and anger. Starting in the mid-nineteenth century, generations and generations of women’s suffrage supporters lobbied, lectured, wrote, marched, paraded, went on strike, organized, petitioned, picketed, held silent vigils, and practiced civil disobedience to quickly advance the United States of America’s constitution and obtain the right to vote. Many original supporters had passed…

sometimes seem like an unbearable task. Emmeline Pankhurst, Michelle Obama, Susan B. Anthony, Mother Teresa, Helen Keller, and Edith Nourse Rogers are just a few of the women that deserve to be celebrated for what they have contributed to. When one contributes to society, it may make a difference to the world. Throughout the 1800s, women didn’t have the right to vote and were denied numerous rights. Susan Brownell Anthony was the leader that took part in a prominent role in the women’s…

themselves, and they knew, they had to do something about it. Even though this was a huge issue here in the United States, it was also an issue in other countries such as Canada, United Kingdom, and many other countries located in Europe. Together Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton became founders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) in 1869. This organization was created when the women's rights movement split into two groups over the support for African…

Ameliorations in the church were caused by the belief that change will create the salvation of sinners. Many priests believed that "drunkards, harlots and infidels will be awakened and converted" due to these new reforms (document B). Being that religion played a huge role in American life during this time period, especially right after the Second Great Awakening, the religious reformations expanded democratic ideals. The primary goal of the church reforms were to improve the lives…