Impact Of Susan B Anthony

The Cultural Impact of Susan B. Anthony’s Trial Speech

Women’s Right Movement - History The first attempt to begin and organize a National Women’s right movement was started in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. About 300 people attended the first meeting in which they outlined the trajectory of the movement. The movement expanded and became a significant development within American society. The Women’s Right Movement initially began in 1848. The movement had a broad spectrum of goals that stemmed from striving for the equality of both genders. Many methods were used in order to bring their struggles into the eyes of the government to create reform. They used protests and speeches to promote change

Anthony Susan B. Anthony was born in Massachusetts on February 15, 1820. Due to her parents, she was raised as a Quaker. The Quakers were a religious group during the 17th Century that had the idea that “God exists in every person”. A way that this ideology shaped her beliefs and actions going forward is that Quakers typically believed in the equality of Men and Women. Anthony became a teacher, but after some years, retired and moved back to her family. She then became a bigger figure in equal rights.

Once home, she became an abolition activist and began fighting for the end of slavery. She gave many speeches although it was socially unacceptable to do so. In 1848, there was a convention that was held in Seneca Falls, which started the suffrage movement. Although Anthony did not have a direct part in the convention, her mother and sister did. After the start of the women’s suffrage movement, she became a well known activist for women’s rights. She fought for women’s rights for almost 50 years and traveled around the country in order to give speeches and spread her ideas of equality. Anthony and her good friend and women’s rights activist, Elizabeth Standon, co-founded the American Equal Rights Association. Although Anthony was an abolition activist, she was angry that the 14th and 15th amendments passed which gave African American men the right to vote as she saw it unfair that women were not given the same right. She used the amendments as ammunition for her cause

As there were both men and women that supported the movement, there were also men and women that were against the ideas of the Women’s suffrage movement. A lot of these ideas came from the perspective of gender roles. From the perspective of those against the women’s right to vote, people thought that women would not have enough time to keep up with the politics during the time. They were expected to take care of the children and the home. These ideas were based on the assumption that women were uneducated and that they would be automatically assigned to the role of a housewife. Some also had the belief that women did not have the mental capacity in order to create an impactful opinion on political issues. These beliefs were based on sexist ideas in the fact that women are created less than men which is factually untrue. A lot of controversy sparked when arguing in favor of women’s rights to