Gracie Women’s Right Movement

Women’s Right Movement has affected women in the United States. It started 1776 because women were being treated wrong. Now we have laws that all people should be treated equally.

 

Susan B. Anthony was part of the Women’s Right Movement. She was born on February 15th,1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. She was the second oldest child of eight children in her house and only six lived to be adults. After the family moved to Battenville, New York in 1826 she had to go to a Quaker school. And after her father’s business failed in 1830 she came back to help sort things out and found work as a teacher. And during the mid-1840s the family moved to a farm in the area of Rochester, New York where they became involved in the fight to end slavery.     

 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was also part of the Women’s Right Movement. She was born on November 12th,1815 in Johnstown New York. She graduated from Emma Willard’s Troy Female Seminary in 1832 and was drawn to the Women’s Rights Movement. In 1840 she had married Henry Stanton and the two went to London for the  World’s Anti-Slavery Convention and joined other women that didn’t want to be apart of the assembly. When they came back to the U.S Elizabeth had seven children and her husband just studied more and practiced law, then later on the family moved to Seneca Falls, New York.

 

In 1872 Susan B. Anthony had voted illegally in a presidential election and got arrested for it then fined $100 for it but never payed.

Later on a few years Susan met with President Theodore Roosevelt in 1905 where she asked to talk about an amendment to give women the right to vote.

After 14 years after she died, women got the right to vote in 1920 which is now the 19th Amendment of the U.S Constitution. And since she wasn’t there the U.S Treasury Department had put her face on dollar coins to honor her.
Susan B. Anthony is the main reason that women are allowed to vote now. Even though she is dead, we all know her as a legend to America and everywhere.