How Did Susan B Anthony Fight For Women's Rights

February 15th, 1820 may go down as a seemingly insignificant day in history, however one of the most influential women's rights and suffrage activists was born on this day. Susan B. Anthony was born on this day in Adams, Massachusetts (http://susanbanthonyhouse.org). She was born to a Quaker family that had been involved in many different movements to help better America. It is thought that with this principal her family helped her to develop a “sense of justice and moral zeal”(http://susanbanthonyhouse.org). From there she went on to teach for fifteen years. After teaching she became involved with the temperance movement because of the underlying Quaker belief that drinking liquor was sinful. She then joined the Daughters of Temperance, a

After Anthony was prohibited from speaking at the 1853 Sons of Temperance convention in Albany, she left and held her own meeting. Soon after, Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton started the Women’s State Temperance Society, which tried to get the state to limit liquor sales. The women collected a petition with 28,000 signatures, although it was rejected due to the fact that the majority of the signers were women and children (http://susanbanthonyhouse.org). This pushed Anthony to fights for women's right to vote. In 1851 Anthony was introduced to Amelia Bloomer by Stanton, she then attended her first women's rights convention in Syracuse in 1852. In 1866 Anthony and Stanton founded the American Equal Rights Association, and two years later they published their women's rights newspaper, The Revolution. In 1869 Anthony and Stanton’s National Association focused on getting a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote. Meanwhile, Wyoming became the first territory to give women the right to vote. In the 1870s Anthony campaigned in the west for women's rights, and in 1872 Anthony along with her three of her sisters were arrested for

In the 1890s Anthony worked to guarantee that territories that allowed women to vote wouldn't be blocked admission to the Union. At the 1893 World's Fair she was a part of the International Council of Women. After she retired as President of the NAWSA, she presided over the 1904 Council of Women in Berlin and later became the honorary president of Carrie Chapman Catt’s International Woman’s Suffrage Alliance. Anthony was also an advocate for abolition. When she was a child her family hosted anti-slavery meetings at their farm almost every Saturday. They were occasionally joined by Frederick Douglas and William Lloyd Garrison. She became an agent for the American Anti-slavery Society where she made speeches, arranged meetings, put up posters and leaflets. Subsequently she endured hostile mobs, armed threats, and people throwing things at her (http://susanbanthonyhouse.org). Frustrated with the emancipation proclamation Anthony and Stanton founded the Women’s National Loyal League. They amassed around half a million signatures on a petition for Congress to “emancipate(ing) all persons of African descent held to involuntary service or labor in the United States”(www.senate.gov). It is commonly thought that this petition helped push politicians to create the Thirteenth Amendment. Anthony died in 1906 in Rochester. Anthony's mission wasn’t fully accomplished until 1920 when women