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In 1852, Anthony represented her Montgomery Union at a meeting with the Sons of Temperance. However, when she rose to speak, the Sons told her that they hadn’t invited female delegates there to speak, but to listen and learn.
I think this influenced her advocacy for gender equality because she wasn’t allowed to speak at a meeting that she was invited to because she was a woman. -
Anthony’s and Stanton's partnership dominated the woman’s movement for over half of a century. They worked together to advocate for the 13th amendment and found the National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA) in 1896.
This is important because without having met Stanton, Anthony may not have been able to gain the immense platform she used to spread articles, books, and speeches. -
Anthony was arrested, indicted, tried, and convicted for casting her ballot in the 1872 presidential election, because the constitution of New York only gave men the right to cast ballots.
This could have influenced her decision to continue fighting for women’s rights to vote in California. Eventually securing the vote for women. -
The court unanimously ruled that states have the right to withhold suffrage.
This certainly influenced Anthony’s advocacy because afterwards, she traveled even more to states withholding suffrage in order to persuade them to sanction suffrage to all women.