Women's suffrage

1. Women's suffrage Julia Feldman Sam Levine Jessica Ebert Aren Berkenbush

2. Susan B. Anthony • Background • Brought up in a Quaker family with long activist traditions • Susan was a teacher for fifteen years and after became active in temperance • Since she is a woman she was not allowed to speak at temperance rallies • With having that experience it lead her acquaintance with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, led her to join the women's rights movement in 1852 • Ever since she has dedicated her life to women’s suffrage

3. Susan B. Anthony • What she did • Published "The Revolution" from 1868-1870, a weekly paper about the woman suffrage movement whose motto read, "Men their rights and nothing more, women their rights and nothing less. • First person arrested, put on trial and fined for voting on November 5, 1872. Unable to speak in her defense she refused to pay "a dollar of your unjust penalty." • Wrote the Susan B. Anthony Amendment in 1878, which later became the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote. • Helped found the National American Woman's Suffrage Association in 1890, which focused on a national amendment to secure women the vote. • Founded the International Council of Women (1888) and the International Woman Suffrage Council (1904), which brought international attention to suffrage.

4. Elizabeth cady Stanton • Background • She graduated from the Emma Willard’s Troy Female Seminary in 1832. • She was drawn to the abolitionist, temperance, and women's rights movements through visits to the home of her cousin, the reformer GerritSmith. • In 1840 Elizabeth Cady Stanton married a reformer Henry Stanton and they went at once to the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London, where she joined other women in objecting to their exclusion from the assembly.

5. Elizabeth cady Stanton • What she did • Elizabeth Cady Stanton held the famous Seneca Falls Convention in July 1848. • Wrote and lectured on women's rights and other reforms of the day. • After meeting Susan B Anthony in the early 1850s, she was one of the leaders in promoting women's rights in general and the right to vote in particular. • During the Civil War Elizabeth Cady Stanton concentrated her efforts on abolishing slavery, but afterwards she became even more outspoken in promoting women suffrage. • Stanton was the National Women’s Suffrage Association’s first president.

6. Accomplishment • In the early 1800’s, women did not have the right to vote and had very limited education • July 19-20, 1848: Seneca Falls • A women’s rights convention organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton • 1st serious discussion about women’s suffrage • Wrote the Declaration of Sentiments: demanded equality with men, the right to vote, and equal opportunities for women • Declaration of Sentiments was modeled after the Declaration of Independence • This outraged and angered men all over the nation, it challenged the custom ways of the nation • Seneca Falls did not resolve the issue of women’s suffrage, but throughout the years women will continue to fight for the rights they deserve

7. Connection to jacksonian democracy