Elizabeth Cady Stanton Biography
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- In 1840, Elizabeth Cady married Henry Stanton. She became Elizabeth Cady Stanton. At the young age of 24, she was questioning her role as a woman.
- Henry Stanton was an abolitionist, working to end slavery. However, abolitionists did not let women join the movement.
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- Women should be allowed to fight against slavery just like men can!
- We should gather our friends and propose to have a meeting.
- On Sunday, July 9, 1848, Elizabeth and her friend Lucretia Mott decided to speak with other friends. They all agreed that women should have equal opportunities as men. They wrote in the newspaper that they would have a Women's Rights Convention the next week.
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- "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal."What Is the Women's Rights Movement? (p. 12)
- Using the Declaration of Independence as a model, Elizabeth wrote her own version and called it the Declaration of Sentiments. With eleven demands for action in this declaration, her husband refused to show up to the first meeting. However, more than 300 women, and some men, went to Seneca Falls where Elizabeth read her Declaration of Sentiments. In these, she declared for women's suffrage, which is the right to vote.
- Although only 100 people at the convention supported women's suffrage, Elizabeth later had the help of Susan B. Anthony, forming the National Woman Suffrage Association. They wrote an amendment to the Constitution giving women the right to vote. With the help of many other activists to come after them, women got the right to vote and the amendment became law on August 26th, 1920.
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