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Courtney Crowley Reformer’s Convocation Resume Wimmer APUSH 2/26/12

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born November 12, 1815 in Johnstown, New York. She received an exceptional education in her hometown at the Johnstown Academy and at Emma Willard’s Troy Female Seminary from which she graduated from in 1832. She then continues her education by studying law in the office of her father, Daniel Cady. She learned the discriminatory laws which women were forced to live by and decided she wanted to change them. She became determined to win equal rights for her sex. Elizabeth married Henry Brewster Stanton in 1840. He was a lawyer and abolitionist. At their wedding Elizabeth insisted that the word “obey” be dropped from the wedding ceremony. Both Elizabeth and Henry became active members of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Elizabeth became dedicated and involved with the movement. She decided to join Lucretia Mott on a trip to London as delegates to the World Anti-Slavery Convention. Both of the women became furious as the convention continued. Like the British women at the convention, they were refused permission to speak. After returning home, Elizabeth became a frequent speaker on the subject of women’s rights. She circulated petitions that helped to grant married women property rights. She later stated, “We need to call for a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of women.” Elizabeth argued that it was time for women’s wrongs to be laid before the public and that it was the responsibility of the women themselves to make it happen. Then, in 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the Women’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls in New York. Their first task was drawing up the Declaration of Sentiments which would help to define the meeting. It was a document that described the types of discrimination women of America faced and offered solutions. It called for equal rights in voting, law, and education. The actual convention did not change the rights granted towards women but helped to spread the ideas and beliefs of the abolitionists. The entire Declaration of Sentiments was eventually published in the New York Herald. Read by thousands, it started the first step in the process of reformation. Women and men now had a new question to think about.


 * Susan B. Anthony:** In 1851, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony started working together. The two women made a great team. Anthony managed the business affairs of the women’s rights movement, while Stanton did most of the writing. Together they formed the National Women Suffrage Association and traveled all over the country and abroad promoting women’s rights.
 * Amelia Bloomer:** Amelia Boomer was also an American women’s rights advocate along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She lived in Seneca Falls New York and attended the Seneca Falls Convention. She is commemorated for her efforts in working with Elizabeth in order to offer support to the women’s rights movement.

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