By:Lubezki Bernard, Doran Issri, and Ja'kayla SeymourElizabeth Cady StantonBorn on November 12, 1815, in Johnstown, New York, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an abolitionist and leading figure of the early woman's movement. An eloquent writer, her Decleration of Sentiments was a revolutionary call for woman's rights across a variety of spectrums. Stanton was the president of the National Woman Suffrage Association for 20 years and worked closely with Susan B. Anthony.
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"The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality. "
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Collaboration with Susan B. Anthony
In 1851, she was introduced by a mutual friend to Susan B. Anthony, who was most active in the temperance movement at the time. The two would form a life-long friendship and collaboration. Initially, they focused on the temperance movement, forming the Woman’s State Temperance Society, which disbanded within a year. Convinced that gaining equality for women would have the greatest effect, giving women the ability to affect both temperance and abolition, Stanton and Anthony focused their energies on suffrage.
Anthony and Stanton increasingly tied female suffrage and black suffrage together, forming the Woman’s National Loyal League in 1863 to support the Thirteenth Amendment to abolish slavery and campaigning for full citizenship for blacks and women. After the Civil War, they split from the less radical American Woman Suffrage Association founded by Lucy Stone, which believed in precedence—the idea that suffrage for free black men was more important than suffrage for women—and which focused on winning the right to vote state-by-state. Instead, Anthony and Stanton campaigned for a constitutional amendment for universal suffrage in America and founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869 with Matilda Joslyn Gage. Stanton and Gage wrote the Declaration of Rights of the Women of the United States, which Anthony presented, uninvited, at the Centennial celebration in Washington in 1876. |
What methods did Elizabeth use to improve Woman's Rights?
She wrote articles and speeches on women's rights, an autobiography and a critique of women's treatment by religion. Stanton also formed multiple organizations for equal rights and women's suffrage.
During the Civil War, Elizabeth and Susan B. Anthony created the National Woman's Loyal League for constitutional abolition of slavery. After the war, Elizabeth and Susan tried, and failed, to connect women suffrage to black suffrage. They then criticized the 14th and 15th amendments. National Woman Suffrage Association eventually secured the Nineteenth Amendment. |
Self Accomplishments
Stanton worked with many others to form a few groups such as the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the National Woman's Loyal league.
She served as the NWSA's president. She won property rights for women who were married, equal custody of children and liberalized divorce laws. Her hard work led to the 19th amendment, which allowed women to vote. This was finalized 18 years after her death. Her book, The Woman's Bible, challenged the church's interpretations of the Bible and the teachings of Christ. |
Stanton's List of Events
Elizabeth Cady Santon
Birth - November,12, 1815
Death - October, 26, 1902
1832- Elizabeth Graduated from Willard's Troy Female Seminary. (As well as having an exquisite education from home prior to that.)
1840- She Attended the World Anti-Slavery convention due to lack of recognition of seven female delegates.
Stanton Produced petitions and protests for married women to have attainable property rights in NewYork legislation
1848- Elizabeth Issued a call for Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, NY.
July 19-20: Introduced the Declaration of Sentiments at the Convention in Seneca falls.
Elizabeth established the Women's Rights Movement that year.
1851-Worked Closely with Susan B. Anthony, actively working together for 50 years after.
Their work included speaking before legislative bodies, planning campaigns, as well as addressing conventions.She wrote many letters, pamphlets, articles, and essays with Susan.
1852 -1853- President of the short-lived Women's State Temperance Society.
1854- She acquired an invitation to address NewYork legislature.
1860- Stanton's speech given at the NewYork legislature as of 1854 resulted in new legislature granting married women rights to their wages and equal guardianship of their children.
1863- During the Civil war while working for abolitionism, Stanton and Anthony organized The Women's National Loyal League, Which gained over 300,000 petition signatures calling for immediate emancipation.
1868-Stanton became co-editor of "The Revolution" newspaper (Mainly based upon Women's Rights.) until the papers ending in 1870.
1869-Elizabeth helped organize the National Women's Suffrage Association and she held president there up until 1892.
Elizabeth continued to write and lecture tirelessly. and was also the principal author of Declaration of rights for Women.
1878- She drafted a federal Suffrage Amendment that was presented at every Congress after until women were given right to vote in 1920.
Birth - November,12, 1815
Death - October, 26, 1902
1832- Elizabeth Graduated from Willard's Troy Female Seminary. (As well as having an exquisite education from home prior to that.)
1840- She Attended the World Anti-Slavery convention due to lack of recognition of seven female delegates.
Stanton Produced petitions and protests for married women to have attainable property rights in NewYork legislation
1848- Elizabeth Issued a call for Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, NY.
July 19-20: Introduced the Declaration of Sentiments at the Convention in Seneca falls.
Elizabeth established the Women's Rights Movement that year.
1851-Worked Closely with Susan B. Anthony, actively working together for 50 years after.
Their work included speaking before legislative bodies, planning campaigns, as well as addressing conventions.She wrote many letters, pamphlets, articles, and essays with Susan.
1852 -1853- President of the short-lived Women's State Temperance Society.
1854- She acquired an invitation to address NewYork legislature.
1860- Stanton's speech given at the NewYork legislature as of 1854 resulted in new legislature granting married women rights to their wages and equal guardianship of their children.
1863- During the Civil war while working for abolitionism, Stanton and Anthony organized The Women's National Loyal League, Which gained over 300,000 petition signatures calling for immediate emancipation.
1868-Stanton became co-editor of "The Revolution" newspaper (Mainly based upon Women's Rights.) until the papers ending in 1870.
1869-Elizabeth helped organize the National Women's Suffrage Association and she held president there up until 1892.
Elizabeth continued to write and lecture tirelessly. and was also the principal author of Declaration of rights for Women.
1878- She drafted a federal Suffrage Amendment that was presented at every Congress after until women were given right to vote in 1920.
Reference
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton. (n.d.). Retrieved February 07, 2017, from https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-Cady-Stanton
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton. (n.d.). Retrieved February 07, 2017, from http://www.historynet.com/elizabeth-cady-stanton
-National Women's History Museum. (n.d.). Retrieved February 07, 2017, from https://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/elizabeth-cady-stanton/
History.com Staff. (2009). Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Retrieved February 07, 2017, from http://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/elizabeth-cady-stanton
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton. (n.d.). Retrieved February 07, 2017, from http://www.historynet.com/elizabeth-cady-stanton
-National Women's History Museum. (n.d.). Retrieved February 07, 2017, from https://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/elizabeth-cady-stanton/
History.com Staff. (2009). Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Retrieved February 07, 2017, from http://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/elizabeth-cady-stanton