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Elizabeth C. Stanton
Elizabeth was born in November 12, 1815 in Johnstown, NY. She died in October 26 , 1902 in NY. Elizabeth Cady received the best female education available at the time, at Emma Willard's Academy, but regretted not having a full-fledged college education. She spent her post academy years like other young women of leisure, in visiting and social activities, primarily at the home of her cousin, the abolitionist Gerrit Smith. There she fell in love with another abolitionist, Henry B. Stanton. An older, romantic figure, Henry was part of the exciting world of reform and politics to which she was drawn. Despite her father's opposition, they married in 1840 and for their honeymoon went to London to attend the World's Antislavery Convention. There Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott, the leading American female abolitionist, and began to study the Anglo-American traditions of women's rights. In 1851, Cady Stanton met Susan B. Anthony, with whom she formed a lifelong partnership based on their common dedication to women's emancipation. Three years later, she addressed the New York legislature on an omnibus women's rights bill. In 1860, most of the legal reforms she sought in women's status, with the notable exception of enfranchisement, were secured. |
Time Line
- Nov. 12, 1815: Elizabeth Cady Stanton is born
- 1833: She graduates from Troy Female Seminary
- 1840: marries Henry Brewster Stanton
- 1847: move from Boston to Seneca Falls
- 1848: She leads the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls
- 1851: meets Susan B. Anthony
- 1854: Elizabeth and Susan lead the Women's State Temperance Society
- Married Women's Property Law of 1860.`
- 1866: Both establish American Equal Rights Association
- 1868-1870: publish The Revolution
- 1875: The pair abandon hope in suffrage from the New Departure when the Supreme Court declared that voting is not a guaranteed privilege in the case Minor v. Happersett.
- 1890: NWSA and AWSA (American Women's Suffrage Association) merge to form the National American Women's Suffrage Association
- 1890-1900: NAWSA concentrates on gaining suffrage votes one state at a time
- 1920: Fourteen years after Susan B. Anthony's death, the 19th amendment allowed women to vote, as of August 26.
What was it like to be alive at this time period??
being inferior towards man must have felt disappointing. Considering how women are able to do as much as men must have been frustrating. It is sad to think that women did not have much of an oppurtunity to do what they want. There were times were I might have felt weaker in knowing that my voice could not be heard. Life during that time was definetly hard on women.