Susan B. Anthony - Feminism

      Susan Brownell Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts on February 15th in 1820. Her parents were Daniel Anthony, a Quaker and abolitionist, and Lucy Read, a Baptist. Susan was the second oldest child in her family and one of her siblings was Daniel Read Anthony. Today she is commemorated for having been a crucially important civil rights leader and feminist. During the nineteenth century Woman's Rights Movement, Susan B. Anthony fought for approximately 50 years only to achieve her ambitious goal: to introduce Woman's suffrage to the United States. in 1826, at age six, Susan's family moved to New York. At age sixteen, Susan began to attend a Quaker boarding school in Philadelphia named Debora Moulson's Female Seminary. She strongly disliked her school but luckily for her she didn't stay there for long due to her family's financial issues. Before 1849, when Susan agreed to run her family's farm, she was a teacher, but soon came to dislike her occupation. in 1848, she was a supporter of the Temperance movement, a movement designed to restrain the use of alcohol, she even joined the Daughters of Temperance that year. During a temperance rally in Albany, Susan encountered an obstacle that would influence her later life. She was not allowed to speak at the rally and later initiated the Woman's New York State Temperance Society. In 1850 she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton at Senaca Falls, which is when she became significantly interested in women's rights. As she fought for and supported the education, labor and temperance movements, Susan B. Anthony made sure to always incorporate the women's rights.

Woman's Rights to the Suffrage

http://www.nationalcenter.org/AnthonySuffrage.html

A: Susan B. Anthony
P: 1873
P: In 1872, Susan B. Anthony was tried for voting in the presidential election. She was fined $100 for her action.
A: Susan's intended audience was woman which she was hoping to encourage to speak out for themselves. However, she spoke to the United States as a whole, making sure to address them as "friends and fellow citizens".
R: The reason for which she delivered her speech was to address the issue that women were not allowed to vote in the united States.
T: The main idea of her speech was that if the preamble of the Federal Constitution stated, "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, esrablish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America", then she had just as much of a right to vote as any white man did.
S: Susan B. Anthony's speech was of great importance because it made her audience realize that women were never denied the right to vote in the consitution and should therefore be allowed to do so. this meant that she had be tried and fined for no reason. It also made them question whether women were considered human at all.