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Birth
Susan B. Anthony is born in Adams, Massachusets. -
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Life of Susan B. Anthony
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Samuel F. B. Morse sends first Morse Code message
He sends the message from Washington to Baltimore sayin, " What hath God wrought?" -
Started interest in Women's Rights
Became attatched to women's rights after reading New York Tribune Women's Rights Convention in Warchester, Massachusets. Women's suffereage became her lifetime goal. -
Anthony meets Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Anthony joined with Stanton in organizing the first women's state temperance society in America after being refused admission to a previous convention on account of her sex. -
Delivers first public speech
Anthony was invited to speak at the third annual National Women's Rights Convention held in Syracuse, New York in September 1852. She and Matilda Joslyn Gage both made their first public speeches for women's rights at the convention -
Forms Women's State Temprance Society
Travels throughout the state to encourage temprance. Circulates petitions and campaigns for bannning the sale of alchohol. -
Writes and delivers slavery speech
Writes "What Is Slavery?" speech and delivers it which protests the Dred Scott decision. -
Abraham Lincoln is elected president
The South is upset of the election of a Republican president. The South thought Abraham Lincoln would abolish slavery. -
Civil War begins
First shots are fired to begin the Civil War. The Confederacy wants the Union to leave the Forth Sumter. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincoln declared all the slaves in the South free but the South didnt listen. It gave the North a reason to attack the South. -
13th Amendment is passed by Senate
WNLL (Women's National Loyal League) gets 400,000 signatures supporting it. -
Publishes first Revolution paper
On January 8, 1868, Anthony first published the women's rights weekly journal The Revolution. Printed in New York City. Anthony worked as the publisher and business manager, while Elizabeth Cady Stanton acted as editor. The purpose was to get women more pay for work. -
Introduces first women's rights amendment
Anthony, Stanton, Senator Samuel Pomercy of Kansas, Congressman George W. Julian introduce the first women's sufferage amendment in Congress. -
Congress passes Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1875 is sometimes called Enforcement Act or Force Act. It was a federal law enacted that guaranteed African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and prohibited exclusion from jury service. -
Alexander Grahm Bell patents telephone
Patents telephone at age 26. He has been described as one of the most influential figures in human history. -
More women's rights granted
Congress grants women attourneys permission to argue in the Supreme Court's cases. -
Thomas Edison invents lightbulb
Edison did not invent the first electric light bulb. He invented the first commercially practical incandescent light. Other inventions included the phonograph and the motion picture camera. -
Elected president of NAWSA
National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) is an organization dedicated to gaining women's suffrage. Anthony insisted that Stanton become president as long as possible; Anthony served as vice-president-at-large until 1892 when she became president. -
Death
After retiring in 1900, Anthony remained in Rochester, where she died of heart disease and pneumonia in her house. -
Susan B. Anthony coin released
Her coin was the first circulating U.S. coin with the portrait of an actual woman rather than an allegorical female figure like Lady Liberty.
