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Susan B. Anthony was born on Feb. 15th, 1820 in Massachusetts, in a town called Adams.
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Susan's father goes into a depression and he took her and her sister, Guelma out of school. While in his depression, the family has to move to Rochester because they lost their house in Battenville.
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Susan joined the women's rights and suffrage cause in and met with Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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Susan B. Anthony attended a women's suffrage convention.
With her family, Susan attended a women's rights' convention in Rochester. -
Susan B. Anthony quit teaching at Canajoharie Academy.
She quit teaching to join full time in the women's suffrage movement. -
Susan B. Anthony gives her first speech.
President of the Daughters of Temperance, Susan gives her first speech about wanting stronger laws on the control of alcohol. -
At a anti-slavery protest in Syracuse, Susan B. Anthony meets Elizabeth Cady Stanton through their mutual friend, Amelia Bloomer.
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They founded the New York Women's State Temperance Society after Anthony was prevented from speaking at a temperance conference because she was a woman.
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Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. She became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.
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They founded the Women's Loyal National League, which conducted the largest petition drive in the nation's history up to that time, collecting nearly 400,000 signatures in support of the abolition of slavery.
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First Women's Rights Convention that was held ever since the Civil War began.
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They began publishing a women's rights newspaper called The Revolution.
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Susan B. Anthony publishes her first co-written weekly article with Elizabeth Cady Stanton about women's rights.
The Revolution promoted women and African American rights. -
Susan formed the NWSA to help women's rights and suffrage.
With Julia Ward Howe and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan formed the National Women's Suffrage Association to educate the public on the unfairness of women's rights and to make better laws to help women vote. -
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Anthony and Stanton began working with Matilda Joslyn Gage on what eventually grew into the six-volume History of Woman Suffrage.
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Ignoring opposition and abuse, Anthony traveled, lectured, and canvassed across the nation for the vote. She also campaigned for the abolition of slavery, the right for women to own their own property and retain their earnings, and she advocated for women's labor organizations.
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Susan B. Anthony makes the first speech at the New York State Nurses' Convention. She stated that it was so hard to find practiced nurses with a degree and that was because women found it very hard to get a doctor's degree in college.
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Susan gives her famous speech at Washington D.C.
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Susan B. Anthony remained active until her death on March 13, 1906 and died in Rochester, NY.
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19th Amendment passes to state that all women may vote as long as they are 21 or over. This amendment is known to a lot of people as the "Susan B. Anthony Amendment" because of all she did to help move along women's rights.
