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Dates: November 12, 1815 - October 26, 1902

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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