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Susan B. Anthony was born
Adams, Massachsetts, the second of 7 children. -
Susan B. Anthony starts teaching
She taught at Canajoharie Academy. Her yearly salary was $110. She taught for 15 years. -
She attended an anti-slavery convention.
This convention was held in Syracuse, N.Y. She visits Amelia Bloomer, hears William Lloyd Garrison and George Thompson speak. She meets Elizabeth Cady Stanton for the first time. They start talking about woman's rights. -
She joined the women's rights movement
This was with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, speaking with her inspired her to join. The main reason she joined was because at the convention woman couldn't have a say in anything. Soon after that she dedicated her life to woman's suffrage. -
Anthony becomes agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society
She spent years promoting the society's cause up until the Civil War. After the civl war she was more focused on woman's suffrage. The reason she did this because slavery was mostly taken care of. -
Anthony calls the first Woman Suffrage Convention
This accord in Washington DC. The speakers at the convention were Susan, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Senator Samuel Clarke Pomeroy, Parker Pillsbury, John Willis Menard and Doctor Sarah H. Hathaway. This was the 12th anual convention. -
Anthony is arrested for voting
She voted in the front parlor of 7 Madison Street. Back then woman voting was illegal. She continues to lecture and attend conventions. She was not going to give up. -
Anthony and other women published the "History of Woman Suffrage"
Other women that helped were Stanton, and Matilda Joslin Gage. This was the first volume but later there were 3 more. This book was about how woman's rights compared to mens and how it was so unfair. -
Anthony meets with President Theodore Roosevelt
They have a discussion about submitting a suffrage
amendment to Congress. This took place in Washington D.C. Roosevelt said he would take it into consideration. -
Susan B. Anthony dies
Before she dies she gives her "Failure is Impossible" speech at her 86th birthday celebration. She dies at her Madison Street home. She dies from a disease called Pneumonia. -
The 19th Amendment
This is known as the Susan B. Anthony amendment. This gives all U.S. woman over 21 years of age to vote. Sadly she was not alive for this event. -
Susan B. Anthony Dollar
Susan B. Anthony was the first woman to be honored by having her likeness appear on a circulating United States coin. This coin was worth one U.S. dollar. President Jimmy Carter signed the Susan B. Anthony Dollar Coin Act into law.
