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Susan B. Anthony (Start Date to her journey)
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) was a pioneer in the women's suffrage movement in the United States and president (1892-1900) of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, which she founded with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Her work helped pave the way for the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 to the Constitution, which gave women the right to vote. -
The Declaration of Sentiments Created
In 1840 The Declaration of Sentiments Created because women were try to get closer to equal rights so they can support themselves in their own lives. They also got closer to getting rid of the way people look at women. -
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Women's suffrage
- They were fighting for equal rights for all woman. So they could have better lives for themselves and the people they are trying to support.
- To get paid as much as men get paid so they can make a living alone without a husband to rely on all the time. The End of the women's rights movement: The 19th Amendment in 1920 allowed all women to vote for the first time in US history and led to more things to come like the girl power push of today.
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Lucy Stone
Lucy Stone was the first Massachusetts woman to earn a college degree and she defied gender norms when she famously wrote marriage vows to reflect her egalitarian beliefs and refused to take her husband's last name. After she graduated from Oberlin College in 1847, she began lecturing for the antislavery movement as a paid agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. -
Worcester, Massachusetts the first National Women's Rights Convention
Worcester, Massachusetts, is the site of the first National Women's Rights Convention. That started the spark that have except going to the end of the women’s social movement. The leaders of the women's rights movement were invited there by the reformers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. In 1848, a group of abolitionist activists gathered in Seneca Falls, New York. To start the movement that would spark several things to come. -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American leader in the women's rights movement. In 1848, at the Seneca Falls Convention, she drafted the first organized demand for women's suffrage in the United States. -
The first state constitution in California
The first state constitution in California extends property rights to women in 1849. So they can make more of a stand to be able to support themselves. To make a living for themselves and or for their kids.
