Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Women's Rights Movement

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born on November 12, 1815 in Johnstown, New York.She received an astonishing education: she went to Johnstown Academy to studied Greek and mathematics, she became an experienced debater and she attended the Emma Willard’s Troy Female Seminary in New York. Where she studies logic, physiology, and natural rights philosophy. She also understood law since her father was a lawyer and a judge. She later married Henry Stanton, but during her vows she refused to say obey. They later had seven children and moved to Seneca Falls, New York. Both Stanton and her husband were strong defenders of the anti-slavery.
Growing up her father favored her brothers more than her sisters and her. In court with her father she saw personally how women underwent legal discrimination. She recognized that the laws of the government were discriminating against women and she had to do whatever was necessary to change them with her knowledge and education. Stanton escorted her husband to London for World Abolitionist Convention in June 1840, where she met Lucretia Mott which later became a close friend and mentor. Mott and Stanton both had one goal, to fight for women’s rights. The two women and many more met on July 19, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York to talk over the religious, social, and civil conditions of the rights of women.
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Anthony in 1851 it advanced the women’s rights movement. Anthony helped Stanton to advance her suspicion of law and activity. Anthony and Stanton was the perfect pair with Anthony’s organizing abilities and Stanton’s philosophical focus thinking. They created the foundation of the women’s movement during their time. Together they created the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1868, and Stanton was the president for more than 20 years. The National Woman Suffrage Association permitted Stanton to have a significant effect on the American laws, traditions, and customs which effected the rights of