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Elizabeth Cady Stanton is born
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Marriage
Elizabeth Cady Stanton married a man named Henry B. Stanton. Henry Brewster Stanton was a abolitionist, a person who opposed slavery. Henry B. Stanton was a journalist, antislavery orator, and became a attorney. Her father, Daniel Cady, did not agree with the marriage. Henry B. Stanton was a acquaintance of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's cousin, Gerrit Smith. Elizabeth Cady Stanton refused to say the phrase "Promise to obey" in her wedding vows. -
First National Women's Rights Convention
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was first invited to speak in the first National Women's rights Convention in Worchester, Massachusetts. Elizabeth Cady Stanton decided not go to because of her pregnancy, but she sent her speech to be read and lended her name for the National Women's Rights Convention. -
Meeting Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton first meets Susan B. Anthony on a street corner in Seneca Falls, New York. This meeting will change their lifes forever. They worked as a team and both fought for women's rights. Elizabeth Cady Stanton would write stories and declarations while Susan B. Anthony would follow the movements and actions. Their partnership allowed for the nineteenth amendment. When Elizabeth Cady Stanton was busy with her family, Susan B. Anthony would read aloud Elizabeth Cady Stanton's poems. -
Kids
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Henry Brewster Stanton had a seventh child named Robert Livingston Stanton. He was a unplanned menopausal baby. He was the last and the seventh child of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Henry Brewster Stanton. She gave birth to him when she was 44 years old. He lived in New York City, New York in 1891. He was a graduate of Cornell Univeristy and Columbia College Law School. Robert Livingston Stanton stayed unmarried. -
Candidate for Congress
Elizabeth Cady Stanton declares herself as a candidate for Congress from the 8th Congressional District of New York. She lost by a big difference. She recevied 24 out of 22,026 votes cast in November. This event shows how much Elizabeth Cady Stanton was going to risk for the fight of women's rights. -
American Woman Suffrage Association
The American Woman Suffrage Association was a larger association than the National Woman Suffrage Association. This association supported the Fifteenth amendment as it was written. This organization was better funded and it was more representative of women's rights. -
History of Woman Suffrage
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and another person collaborated and worked together to make the first volume of History of Woman Suffrage. They planned for their to be 6 volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage, and it included letters of the woman's rights movement, full history, and other documents of the History of Woman Suffrage. -
International Council of Woman
In her later years, Elizabeth Cady Stanton helped fund the International Council of Woman. She became known as a women's rights leader, and her reputation got better. -
Support of the Spanish-American
In 1898, Elizabeth Cady Stanton supported the Spanish-American War. She wrote: "Though I hate war per se, I am glad that it has come in this instance. I would like to see Spain . . . swept from the face of the earth." which made her well known for her strong support of the Spanish-American War. She was close to her end years. -
Death
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was 86 years old when she died. She died in New York, New York. She died of heart failure at her house, and she died 18 years before women were granted the rigth to vote. After Elizabeth Cady Stanton's death many people started to have Susan B. Anthony as the founder of the women's rights movement. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was forgotten when she died. -
National Organization of Woman1 Jan 1966
The National Organization of Woman or (NOW) is formed in 1966 for the stop of discriminiation of woman in other places. This is the biggest women's rights group in the United States. Elizabeth Cady Stanton would have joined and been a big member of this organization if she was alive. Her reputation of woman's rights could have risen if she was alive. That's why this event could have impacted Elizabeth Cady Stanton's life.