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Elizabeth Cady Stanton is born in Johnstown,NY
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Elizabeth's brother dies and she tries to help her father by trying to be a replacement. She even got a good education like her brother.
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Elizabeth graduated high school sometime in 1830
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She attended Troy Academy seminary from 1830 to 1833
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Henry Brewster and Elizabeth get married against her father's wishes. They go on a wedding journey in London.
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Elizabeth decides to change the women's roles in society because she doesnt like the way the community works.
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Only 4 women show up for the convention. This Convention is where she presented the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments that she wrote.
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Elizabeth and Susan meet and they become partners in their figth for Women's RIghts.
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Elizabeth and Susan started their campaign by trying to expand New York's Married Women's Property Law of1848
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Robert, their last child, was unplanned and a surprise to Elizabeth at the age of fourty four.
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After giving her speech the New York Married Women Property Law of 1848 gave them more rights which became the Married Women's Property Law of 1860.
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This association was to get voting rights for African Americans and women.
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This was a women's rights paper. Elizabeth was the main writer and editor, and Susan was the publisher and business manager. The paper was a financial failure but it was a political success, giving them a place to voice their opinions.
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The pair abandon hope in suffrage from the New Departure when the Supreme Court declared that voting was not a given privilege in the case Minor v. Happersett. They decide to change their focus to National Women's Suffrage Association on a campaign to get women's suffrage
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Elizabeth writes and submits the NWSA's proposed amendment. The amendment was submitted to the U.S. senate and was brought up in every congress session for the next 40 years.
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Elizabeth and Susan work together to make the first three volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage. This is the story of their movement.
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Went to visit family and to see if an international suffrage movement could be possible.
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went back for the same reasons that she went for the first time. Her and Susan then decided to schedule an international conference of women in 1888, as a 40th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention
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This was the first and largest international conference of women but it did not further the movement.
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NWSA and AWSA come together to form the National American Women's Suffrage Association so that the forces for women's suffrage were not divided, and voting could eventually be achieved
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Elizabeth retires NAWSA presidency.
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Elizabeth publishes the first volume of the Women's Bible. It becames an immediate best-seller but her collegues at NAWSA did not like it.
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Two weeks before her 87th birthday she dies of heart failure.
