...Susan Brownell Anthony One of the things that makes America to the country it is today is democracy. Without Susan Brownell Anthony though, democracy would not be possible. Susan B. Anthony spent her whole life to the women’s suffrage movement, the movement that fought for the women’s right to vote. Without her women would probably not have the right to vote until way later and if women do not have the right to vote, it would not be a democracy. Early Life Susan Brownell Anthony was born on February 15, 1820 in Adams Massachusetts (Susan B. Anthony Biography.). Her fathers name is Daniel Anthony and her mother’s name is Lucy Read and out of eight children she was the second oldest (McPherson). Her family was part of a religious group called...
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...Suffering for Suffrage Suffrage: the right to vote in political elections. Up until 1920 this definition only applied to men, and Susan B. Anthony was the woman who helped changed that. Susan B. Anthony was a women’s rights activist and political activist figure all through the 1800’s and many of her ideas are ones that we still adhere to today. She fought against slavery and for women’s property rights, but what she is most well known for is her work with the women’s suffrage movement and her trial in 1873. What Susan B. Anthony fought for and achieved are reasons why she is unarguably one of the most influential women in women’s rights history. Susan B. anthony was a reformist, believing in gradual change rather than a...
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...Susan B Anthony Some Facts Regarding the Suffrage Movement and Susan B Anthony’s Involvement Cindy Mutchler November 13, 2011 American Public University Tara Simpson HIST 102 Most people have heard of Susan B Anthony as her face is on some of our dollar coins. But some may not know the reasons behind her being on that coin, and the way that she got there. This and many other things in themselves make her fascinating and intriguing as well. Born on February 15 1820, Susan B. Anthony “was brought up in a Quaker family with long activist traditions.” “After teaching for fifteen years, she became active in temperance. Because she was a woman, she was not allowed to speak at temperance rallies.” “This experience, and her acquaintance with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, led her to join the women's rights movement in 1852.” “Ignoring opposition and abuse, Anthony traveled, lectured and canvassed across the nation for the vote.” “She also campaigned for the abolition of slavery, women's right to their own property and earnings, and women's labor organizations.” “In 1900, Anthony persuaded the University of Rochester to admit women.” “Anthony, who never married, was aggressive and compassionate by nature.” “She remained active until her death on March 13, 1906.” Susan B Anthony “helped to found the American Equal Rights Association in 1866, and in 1868 with Stanton as editor, became publisher of Revolution.” The masthead for this paper was “‘Men their rights, and nothing more;...
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...Susan B. Anthony is memorized in history for being an amazing leader in American politics. Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts during the 1820’s (Funk & Wagnall). She was raised up in a Quaker household who raised Anthony to believe that equality was important, and that everyone has the potential to be something magnificent. Before Anthony took a stand, she took one of the only professions open to women at this time, teaching (Naparsteck, M. J.). She was receiving only one-fifth of the weekly salary that males were earning, which sparked Anthony’s interest in women’s rights (Naparsteck, M. J.). Susan used the ideas her Quaker family had raised her to believe, which predicted her future role in the abolitionist, temperance, women’s rights, and women’s suffrage movements. Susan B. Anthony has changed the way of American life today....
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...during Kate Chopin’s time did not have rights and were considered to be the property of their husbands. Kate Chopin is a well-renowned author known for her writing about women’s lives and her support for the suffrage movement. Married women during the late 1800’s in Kate Chopin’s time were oppressed because they did not have rights to their property, did not have the right to vote, and were not considered to be equal to men. Women in the late 1800’s did not have rights to their own property as everything was considered to be their husbands. Women fought a long battle to just gain the rights to land that was already theirs. The “Declaration of Sentiments” created...
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...Susan B. Anthony The Quaker influence--Hers was a Quaker family. The Quakers believed in education and Susan received excellent training. They believed in hard work, and Susan learned a strong work ethic from an early age. They believed in generosity and charity. They believed in peace, temperance and justice, and this was to affect her adult concerns about injustices toward women, as well as social problems that come from alcohol. The Quakers also believed that men and women were equal partners before God, and this must have had an important influence on her belief in women's rights. The family influence--Susan B. Anthony was raised with Quaker discipline and austerity, but there was an independent spirit that came from both her father and mother. Her father, Daniel, was devout, but he went outside the church to marry the woman he loved. Her mother, Lucy, had loved music and dancing as a girl, but she gave this up to accept the rules of her husband’s Quaker faith. In her spirit, however, her mother never forgot her light-hearted youth. Daniel Anthony was concerned about social justice. When he ran his own cotton mill, he avoided buying slave-raised cotton. This lesson was not lost on Susan. The move to New York--In Massachusetts, her father's cotton mill was very successful, and he was soon asked to manage mills at Batten Ville, New York. The family moved there in 1826 when Susan was 6 years old. Soon the family was in a large brick home. Education--Susan's education...
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...Mohandas Gandhi The life work of Gandhi created a major mechanism for significant positive change in our world history that we still value and honor today. Gandhi dedicated his life to advocating for civil rights in India and South Africa as well as the philosophy of passive resistance in order to achieve his goals and not cooperate with authorities which he deemed unjust. Gandhi studied law and advocated for Indian rights in South Africa and his home country of India during the many years he lived there. (History, 2010) The changes he created within these countries have inspired similar change in the United States with practices we still incorporate today. Through the practice of Satyagraha Gandhi was able to use social and political action to achieve his goals. Two significant changes Gandhi put into action are helping India gain Independence from Britain and the use of the philosophy of Satyagraha. (Gandhi, 2014) After Gandhi spent 20 years in South Africa advocating for Indian rights he continued with this passion in his home country of India. In 1914 he became the leader of the Indian National Congress using his policy of non-violent, non- cooperation passive resistance to achieve the goal gaining impendence of India from Great Britain. Gandhi influenced his following by leading from example. Gandhi used the act of fasting a form of passive resistance as a means of protest. (Gandhi, 2014). His fasting resulted in intense reaction from his followers which in turn put immense...
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...There are many figures in that helped shape American society, but Susan B. Anthony is one figure that deserves praise for all her accomplishments, influence on politics, and influence on time period. Without her contributions, modern society wouldn’t be close to what it is now. Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820 from Daniel and Lucy Anthony. Both of Anthony’s parents encouraged her to push toward her cause. Daniel Anthony was a Quaker, believing in the idea that everybody should think independently and speak their mind. Lucy Anthony enlightened her daughter by becoming an icon for the burdens of marriage, igniting a reason to accomplish all that Anthony did ( Batten ). Starting out, Susan B, Anthony became a teacher and a headmistress...
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...Women’s Rights Suffrage Movement The topic i'm doing for my essay is the Women's Rights Movement. Overall it was a struggle for women to get the right to vote and run for office. The first meeting for the W.S.M was on july 13. 1848 in Seneca Falls. Led by Susan b. Anthony and Elizabeth cady stanton, Frederick Douglass also helped in the women's suffrage movement. The W.S.M was a huge part in America's history because it gave women the right to vote and run for office. The first person I am doing is Frederick Douglass. F. Douglass lived in Washington d.c., Rochester and Baltimore. Douglass lived from 1818-1895. Frederick Douglass was born into slavery then escaped and became the one of the biggest advocates for women's right and abolition...
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...Susan B. Anthony was a very influential woman in her time. She was determined to stand up for women's rights because she strongly believed that all people should be treated equally no matter the gender, race or religion. Susan was born in 1820 and died in the year 1906. She dedicated most of her time to giving speeches all over the country and organized different foundations to protect women's rights. When Susan started teaching in New York, she realized how unfairly women were being treated with respect to their wages. Men were getting payed four times the amount women did. Susan's first speech was at the Daughters of Temperance supper where she spoke out about the temperance movement. In 1852, Susan ultimately decided to join the women's...
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...Susan B. Anthony was a very influential woman in her time. She was determined to stand up for women's rights because she strongly believed that all people should be treated equally no matter the gender, race or religion. Susan was born in 1820 and died in the year 1906. She dedicated most of her time to giving speeches all over the country and organized different foundations to protect women's rights. When Susan started teaching in New York, she realized how unfairly women were being treated with respect to their wages. Men were getting payed four times the amount women did. Susan's first speech was at the Daughters of Temperance Supper where she spoke out about the temperance movement. In 1852, Susan ultimately decided to join the women's...
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...Susan Brownell Anthony was a woman born in Massachusetts during the 1820s. She worked as a teacher for a while, to help her parents pay the bills. Her family had always been very involved in social justices, so from a young age Susan was exposed to and interested in activism. Her parents raised her to believe that women were equal to men. “She held that message close to her heart and worked her whole life to persuade others to believe it.” (Page 8, Arnold B. Cheyney) She worked hard to help both the Abolitionist Movement and the Temperance Movement, but came across a problem when she applied to speak at a Temperance convention: “Anthony was denied a chance to speak at a temperance convention because she was a woman, and later realized that...
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.... Miss Anthony was involved in the Temperance Movement by being part of the Daughters of Temperance, in which she and other women campaigned for stronger liquor laws and made people more aware of the effects of drunkenness. She also raised money for the cause (“Temperance Worker”). In January 1852, Miss Anthony attended a Son’s of Temperance meeting. Before she attended the meeting, she collected signatures to petition against the sale and production of liquor in America. She had many ideas on temperance and tried to share them at the meeting, but before she had a chance to speak she was told to be quiet like the other women there (Weisberg “Reform”). After being discriminated against at the Son’s of Temperance meeting, she organized...
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...examining contemporary newspaper/magazine accounts of an historical protest act and analyzing how Susan B. Anthony was reported at the time. The Temple University Primary-Source U.S history Databases that I used to retrieve my information on Susan B. Anthony were The Historical New York Times (1851-2008) and the American Periodical Series Online. These two databases gave me lots of irrelevant and relevant information on Ms.Anthony but I choose articles that were published closes to Ms. Anthony’s time period. Susan B. Anthony was born February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts, and grew up in a politically active family. Her family worked to try and end slavery during the abolitionist movement. “Her family was also apart of the temperance movement, which wanted the production and sale of alcohol limited or stopped completely. Anthony was inspired to fight for women's rights while campaigning against alcohol. She was never given the opportunity to speak at movements because she was a women and in those times a woman's word did not mean much. Anthony was also a pioneer crusader for the woman suffrage movement in the United States and president...
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...the door, having been alive the whole time. Mrs. Mallard literally dies of grief at seeing he is alive and well. This intrigued me, as I wondered why she was so upset he wasn’t dead, and I wanted to find out more about women’s roles in 1894. At the time this story was written, women did not have many rights. They could not seek higher education, own land or property, and they could not vote. In 1894, the fight had started but the battle was still a long way from being won. This story was inspiring to me, and it made me want to learn about the fight for women’s suffrage since 1848, which is when the Seneca Falls Convention was held on July 19 and 20th (“Rights for Women”). According to the National Woman’s History Museum, it took women more than seventy-two years to get right the vote (“Rights for Women”). I find it amazing that the United States denied women the right to vote for that long. The fight for women’s suffrage, which started with the Seneca Falls Convention and is still going on today, reveals a long and arduous struggle. This paper will explore the origins, the early history, the advancements in the 1900’s, the final outcome, and finally the fight for women’s equal rights that still exists today. According to the National Women’s History Museum, “In the early 1800’s, women were second class citizens. Women were expected to...
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