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Birth
A wealthy couple name Daniel Cady and Margaret Livingston Cady gave birth to Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Johnstown, New York, on November 12, 1815. She had three brothers before she came to life. However, she also had two sisters. -
Married
Elizabeth Cady Stanton married to an active abolitionist, Henry Brewster Stanton. When she was getting married to Henry, she already observed enough about the legal relationships between men and women. After the wedding, Elizabeth and Henry Stanton sailed to England to attent The World Anti-Slavery Convention. -
Moved
In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton decided to move from Boston to Seneca Falls, New York and raised her seven childrens. The country life bored Elizabeth. When she moved there, the time for the conention has come. -
Seneca Falls, New York
Elizabeth Cady Stanton an Lucretia Mott called for a women's rights convention to be held in Seneca Falls, New York, at Wesleyan Methodist Church. -
Demanded the right to vote.
Women including Elizabeth Cady Stanton demanded the right to vote. They wrote a Declaration of Sentiments based on the Declaration of Independence. Which spread from New England to Indiana. -
Partnering with Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton worked in a close partnership with Susan B. Anthony. Elizabeth often served as the writer and Susan as the strategist. -
National Women's Loyal League
During the the Civil War (1861–65), Stanton and her ally Susan B. Anthony created the National Woman's Loyal League to build support which became the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, and ended slavery in the United States. Their cause extended beyond women's issues: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony founded the Women's Nation Loyal League and had 400,000 people's signatures to abolish slavery. -
American Equal Rights Association
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, and Lucretia Mott established the American Equal Rights Association. In this year, the organization became active in Kansas where Negro suffrage and woman suffrage were decided by popular vote. However, they both were being rejected at the polls. -
National Woman Suffrage Association
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869, and Elizabeth served as group president until 1890. -
Suffrage Admendment to the U.S. Constitution
In 1878, Elizabeth Cady Stanton convinced Senator Aarom A. Sargent -
The History of Women's Suffrage
The first three volumes of the History of Women's Suffrage were edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. -
Speech
In 1892, Elizabeth Cady Stanton gace a speech urging woman to take responsilbility for their own lives. -
Eighty Years and More
Elizabeth Cady Stanton autobiography, Eighty Years and More was published. -
Blind
Elizabeth Cady Stanton went blind in 1899. However, she still continued to dictate articles and revise speeches. -
Death
Elizabeth Cady Stanton died at the age of 87 due to heart failure in New York. Therefore, her body is now at The Woodlawn Cemetary (Since 1863). However, before she died she left be hind a ltter to Theodore Roosevelt. In it, she asked for the president's support for woman suffrage. -
Declaration of Sentiments
The admendment finally won congressional approval and became law in 1920.
