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Susan was now 25 years old. Her family was very much anti-slavery. They had Quaker anti-slavery meetings at their farm nearly every Sunday. Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison even frequented these meetings. Susan also had two brothers that led anti-slavery meetings in Kansas.
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Being brought up in a Quaker family, Anthony supported stronger liquor laws. In 1848 she made her first speech at a Daughters of Temperance meeting.
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Anthony had been a teacher for 15 years when she became active in temperance. When she was denied the right to speak at these rallies, she decided to join the growing women's rights movement.
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Beginning in New York State, Anthony started speaking at meetings, collecting signatures for petitions, and lobbying the state legislature.
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She would do everything from arranging meetings and making speeches to putting up posters and handing out pamphlets of information. She faced deadly mobs, death threats, and having things thrown at her. In Syracuse, an effigy of her was dragged through the streets.
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Anthony became the head of the girl's department at Canajoharie Academy. Now 26 years old, this was her first paying job. She earned $110 annually.
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They supported and petitioned the Thirteenth Ammendment for the abolition of slavery.They campaigned for full citizenship for every woman regardless of her race. This included the right to vote which they also appealed to the 14th and 15th Ammendments for.
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Anthony and Stanton founded the AERA in 1866 and began publishing the newspaper "The Revolution" for it.
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It promoted a policy of purchasing American-made goods and encouraging immigration to rebuild the South and settle the entire country.
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In 1869 the suffrage movement split, with Anthony and Stanton's National Association continuing to campaign for a constitutional amendment, and the American Woman Suffrage Association adopting a strategy of getting the vote for women on a state-by-state basis.
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This Assocation drew up reports on working conditions and provided educational opportunities for working women. ANthony encourage women to get jobs sewing and various other things.
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Anthony gathered petitions from 26 states with 10,000 signatures, but when she appeared in Congress, she was simply mocked.
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At age 80, Anthonhy retired as president of NAWSA.
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Susan B. Anthony died in her home on Madison Street in Rochester.
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In 1920, women were finally given the right to vote under the 19th Ammendment, also known as the Susan B. Anthony Ammendment.
