Women’s Rights: (1850-1920)
Introduction:
Women's Rights became a prominent issue in the early 1840s, when women were not allowed to own property, inherit land, or obtain custody of their own children.
Attempts by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony were the beginning of the movement and laid down the base for the Nineteenth Amendment, which was taken over by Gloria Steinem.
Historical moments such as The Civil War, The Second Great Awakening, and The Abolitionist movement, all caused the women to look for the same freedom and rights as men.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Gloria Steinem made an important impact on women’s rights in the United States.
Body:
Susan B. Anthony made an important impact on the women’s rights movement by working single mindedly for the right for women to vote and own property.
Susan B. Anthony was born February 15th, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts, she was brought up in a family that were passionate supporters of abolition, women’s rights, and temperance.
Anthony’s first education was her grandfather teaching her to read , after she returned home and finished working on her parents farm she was sent to Friend’s boarding school in Philadelphia where she resumed and completed her education.
Anthony became involved in civil rights once she became involved in teaching and was able to develop her own identity and independence, soon after her introduction to women’s rights she became president of the Local Daughters of Temperance and traveled to Seneca Falls.
Susan B. Anthony worked tirelessly after joining the women’s rights movement, she went door to door collecting signatures for a petition to give women the right to vote and own property.
Her movement paid off in 1860, when the women’s rights movement won its first victory with a passage of a bill allowing women to control their own property, earnings, and be guardians of their children.
Anthony also defied the standards of women’s dress by wearing the bloomer dress and clipping her hair into a bob.
After the creation of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Anthony worked on editing the Revolution, a feminist magazine that raised issues such as prostitution and divorce.
Anthony never married, she felt as that “ she would give some consideration to marriage once she was awarded all of the ‘rights, privileges, and immunities of a citizen” , so she instead focused on her efforts in women’s rights and became president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and was able to see Wyoming become the first state to allow women to vote (“Susan”).
Elizabeth Cady Stanton made an important impact on the women’s rights movement by holding the first women’s rights convention in America.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born November 12th, 1815 in Johnstown, New York, “she became a feminist while still a child, after hearing her father inform abused women that they had no legal alternative but to endure mistreatment by their husbands and fathers”, this highly influenced how she viewed men while she was young (“Elizabeth”).
Stanton received the highest education that was available for women at the time and completed her studies at the Troy Female Seminary, where she met her rival, James Finney.
Stanton became involved in women’s rights after she married Henry B. Stanton,