Susan B. Anthony
“Well Behaved Women
Seldom Make History”
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Susan B. Anthony
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She was born on February 15,
1820 in Adams, Massachusetts.
She was raised as a Quaker
She was a teacher for ten years.
She organized political protests
to abolish (end) slavery and
outlaw liquor.
She died in March 13,1906
Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Gage, and
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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They met in 1840’s.
They worked, tirelessly, to get women the right to vote.
They led the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.
They formed the National Woman Suffrage
Association in 1869.
Anthony
Stanton Gage
Suffrage is the civil right to vote, or
the exercise of that right.
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A suffragette is someone who fights
for the right to vote.
Reasons for the right to vote
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Women were not allowed to own
property.
If a woman inherited money or
property from a family member, her
husband would be the one to keep
the money and property,
If a woman was getting divorced, her
husband had the legal right to keep
her children.
Having the right to vote gives you
political and economic power.
Suffragettes are people who fight
for the right to vote.
Seneca Falls in 1848
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This was the first
meeting held for the
purpose of discussing the
“social, civil, and
religious conditions, and
the rights of woman.”
It was the beginning of
the women’s rights
movement in the United
States.
Declaration of Sentiments was written July 19,
1848. It proposed the right for women to vote.
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Seneca Falls Declaration of
Sentiments and Resolutions
was written at Seneca Falls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton led
the committee to write the
document.
The document was based
on the Declaration of
Independence
Declaration of Sentiments.
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When, in the course of human events, it
becomes necessary for one portion of the family
of man to assume among the people of the earth
a position different from that which they have
hitherto occupied, but one to which the laws of
nature and of nature's God entitle them, a
decent respect to the opinions of mankind
requires that they should declare the causes that
impel them to such a course.
Declaration of Sentiments.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and
women are created equal; that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these
are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure
these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just
powers from the consent of the governed. Whenever any
form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it
is the right of those who suffer from it to refuse allegiance
to it, and to insist upon the institution of a new
government, laying its foundation on such principles, and
organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem
most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Declaration of Sentiments.
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Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long
established should not be changed for light and transient
causes; and accordingly, all experience hath shown that
mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are
sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the
forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long
train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the
same object, evinces a design to reduce them under
absolute despotism, it is their duty to throw off such
government, and to provide new guards for their future
security. Such has been the patient sufferance of the
women under this government, and such is now the
necessity which constrains them to demand the equal
station to which they are entitled.
Women attending the Convention
Women's Rights
National Historical Park
Seneca Falls in 1848
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