Childhood/Youth:
- Birthplace: Johnstown, New York
- Parents: Mary Livingston-Cady and Daniel Cady
- Siblings: 8th child of 11
- Class Status: Upperclass
- Hobbies: she enjoyed reading her father's law books and debated legal issues with his clerks
- Education: Troy Female Seminary (1930s), she was able to compete intellectually and academically with
boys her age
- Realizations: through her studies and hobbies she came to realize that women had no property, inocome,
employment, or custody rights of their children
Marriage/Family:
- Spouse: Henrey Brewer Stanton, studied law underneath Elizabeth's father
- Marriage Year: 1840
- Children: 7
- Occupation: writer, suffragist, women's right activist
Women's Rights Movement:
- June 1840: Stanton meets Mott and starts to organize feminist ideals
- July 1848: Stanton and Mott organized first Women's Right Convention in Sneca Falls, New York, where
she presented her Declaration of Rights and Sentiments
- 1851: met Susan B. Anthony
- 1854: Stanton served as a leader in the Women's State Temperance Society
- 1885-1860: Stanton began to work on expanding women's rights under the Married Women's Property Law of
New York, law passed in 1860
- 1885- 1860: Stanton prepared speeches for Anthony, who gave them in 54 counties of New York
- 1861-1865: Stanton formed the Women's Loyal National Leqgue
- 1866: Stanton helps establish the American Equal Rights Association
- 1868-1870: Stanton helps to publish a newspaper called "The Revolution"
- 1870s: Stanton was a traveling lecture, who published reviews
- 1878: National Women Suffrage Association submitted an amendment to the U.S. Congress (presented every
every year but didn't pass)
- 1880s: Stanton worked on writing the first three volumes of the book The History of Women Suffrage
- 1892: National Women Suffrage Association convention beholds Stanton's last sppech, "Solitude of Self"
because she then retired
- 1895: Stanton published the first volume of her Woman's Bible
- 1920: 19th amendment passed
Anti-Slavery Movements:
- 1856: Stanton became President of the American Anti-Slavery Society, where she delivered speeches against
slavery
- 1861-1865: Stanton's Woman's Loyal National League persuaged the U.S. Congress, with 400,000 signatures,
to pass the 13th amendment abolishing slavery
- 1866: Stanton helps establish the American Equal Rights Association
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