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She was born into a Quaker Community
Since she was born into a Quaker Community she was taught in the the Quaker Belief that women were equal to men. Because of these teachings she grew up to become the Womans Suffrage Activist we know today. -
Susan B. Anthony Joins Temperance Group
She trys to join a male Temperance Group to ban Drinking but was denied and she then joined the Rochester Daughters of Temperance. She became Secretary At the Age of 29. -
Sister's get disbanded.
The Rochester Sisters of Temperance get broken up because of lack of money. After Anthony is not able to talk at a men's state convention. She angrily walked out with some followers and forms their own group, The Woman's State Temperance Society. She was secretary in this group as well. -
The Second Convention
At the Second Convention for the Woman's State Temperance Society, men who were in the group began to take over. Anthony in frustration resigned from her position as secretary of the Society. This ending her work for Temperance and beginning her Women's Rights work. -
Civil War Starts
The Civil war starts between the North and the South, pushing women's rights action to the background. -
Women's National Loyal League
During the Civil War Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the Women's National Loyal League to launch a petition demanding full freedom for all slaves. The petition collected 400,000 signatures. Their efforts were rewarded in the Thirteenth Amendment, which freed all slaves. -
George Francis Train and The Revolution.
In 1867 Anthony and Stanton was offered helped by a wealthy man named George Francis Train. They both gladly accepted his help. He gave them money to start their own newspaper, the Revolution. The first edition of the Revolution came out on January 8, 1868. The editors were Stanton and Parker Pillsbury, an antislavery writer. Anthony was the publisher. -
National Woman Suffrage Association
In May of 1869, the women's movement split into two groups. Anthony and Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association. A women named Lucy Stone answered by forming the American Woman Suffrage Association. As long as each group stayed separate, they would compete for women's loyalty. -
Susan B. Anthony Votes And Breaks the Law.
Susan B. Anthony illegally votes for Ulysses S. Grant to be President. Her penalities for breaking the law would be a 500$ fine and Three years in Prison. She accepted her punishments but she was Bailed out againster her wishes by her lawyer, Henry R. Selden. -
Susan B. Anthony Dies
By 1906 the year of Anthony's death she had gotten only four states- Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho- Gave women the vote. Anthony spoke for the last time to her followers on her eighty-sixth birthday celebration. Her final message to them was, " Failure is impossible."
