Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• By
• Toni Moletteri
• Dimitria Spathakis
• Christina Stellingwerf

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Early Life

• Born on November 12, 1815 in Johnstown, NY
• Stantons family was wealthy and she received top
  education
• BIG INFLUENCE FATHER
• He encouraged her to study law with him
• This is where she first saw the mistreatment of
  women
• Catalyst of Womens Rights Movement
• She attended Johnstown Academy (all boys school)
• Attended Troys Female Seminary
• Only girls school that provided education equal
  to that of a boys

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Later Years

• Married abolitionist Henry Stanton
• Created Seneca Falls Declaration
• Susan B. Anthony, Mott, and Stanton created the
  National Womens Suffrage Association
• Stanton also supported the temperance movement
  (against alcoholic beverages)
• Created one suffrage association by combining the
  two (AWSA and NWSA) to create the National
  American Women Suffrage Association
• Died October 26, 1902 at age 86

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Contributions to Society

• American social activist
• leading figure in the womans rights movement and
  also and abolitionist
• defiant feminist leader
• was an eloquent speaker and gave many speeches on
  womens rights as she repeatedly toured the
  country
• she took daring stands on issues like more
  liberal divorce laws as well as voting rights,
  coeducation, and dress reform

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Seneca Falls Convention

• member of the group that organized the Womans
  Rights Convention in 1848
• The right is ours. The question now is how
  shall we get possession of what rightfully
  belongs to us?
• drafted and read a Declaration of Sentiments
• document paralleled with the Declaration of
  Independence declaring that all men and women
  are created equal
• the convention initiated the womans rights
  movement in the United States

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National American Women Suffrage Association

• Stanton was voted the first president
• NAWSA fought for womens equality in the courts,
  workplaces, and polls
• organization was instrumental in winning the
  ratification of the 19th amendment
• the parent organization of hundreds of smaller
  local and states groups
• their strategy was to push suffrage at the state
  level, and state-by-state support would
  eventually get the fed. Gov. to pass an amendment
• NAWSA hosted large theatrical suffrage parades
  and held major annual conventions

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Society without Stanton

• Today we take for granted that women have equal
  rights however in the 1800s these were the
  rights women had....
• Virtually NONE
• Women had few rights in the areas of property,
  income, employment, or even custody rights over
  their own children, let alone voting
• a woman was subordinate to her husband and she
  could even legally be beaten

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• Burns, Kevin, and Paul Barnes. The Story of
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  For Ourselves Alone. PBS, 2010. Web. 6 Apr. 2010.
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Primary Sources

• Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, and Lucretia Mott.
  "'Declaration of Rights and Sentiments'." From
  Documents of American History, Vol. I, ed. Henry
  Steele Commager, Milton Center, p. 315- 317. .
  American Women's History Online. Facts On File,
  Inc. http//www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp?ItemID
  WE42iPinawhm0695SingleRecordTrue (accessed
  April 11, 2010).
• Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. "Address to the First
  Women's Rights Convention." National Park
  Service. American Women's History Online. Facts
  On File, Inc. http//www.fofweb.com/activelink2.as
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  ssed April 11, 2010)

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