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QUOTE: Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

Who Was (insert name)?: Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) was born in Massachusetts. It is said that Anthony, even as a young girl had an independent spirit. She once asked her male school teacher why he only taught long division to just boys. She was not satisfied with his answer: "A girl needs to know how to read her Bible and count her egg money, nothing more." She reorganized herself around he schoolteacher and sat behind him in order to learn long division She demonstrated her strength and will even as a young girl. Susan B. Anthony would later use these characteristics in the women's rights movements. 1. What makes this person special or interesting? Anthony might be considered our nation's first great female politician. Her disciplined, focused attention to women's issues and her well developed tactical skills made her a remarkably effective advocate. Although Anthony would not live to see her ultimate goal of a women suffrage amendment added to the U. S. Constitution (that would come in 1920, fourteen years after her death), she contributed as much as anyone to the substantial improvement in the legal position of women during the nineteenth century.

2. What kind of effect did he or she have on the world? other people?

What Has (insert name) Done?:

DESCRIPTION OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Susan B. Anthony dedicated her life to "the cause," the woman suffrage movement. The accomplishments of Susan B. Anthony paved the way for the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 (14 years after her death) which gave women the right to vote. Her accomplishments include the following:


 * Founded the National Woman's Suffrage Association in 1869 with life-long friend Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Together they worked for women's suffrage for over 50 years.
 * Published "The Revolution" from 1868-1870, a weekly paper about the woman suffrage movement whose motto read, "Men their rights and nothing more, women their rights and nothing less.
 * First person arrested, put on trial and fined for voting on November 5, 1872. Unable to speak in her defense she refuse to pay "a dollar of your unjust penalty."
 * Wrote the Susan B. Anthony Amendment in 1878 which later became the 19th Amendment giving women the right ot vote.
 * Helped found the National American Woman's Suffrage Association in 1890 which focused on a national amendment to secure women the vote. She served as president until 1900.
 * Compiled and published "The History of Woman Suffrage (4 vols. 1881-1902) with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage.
 * Founded the International Council of Women (1888) and the International Woman Suffrage Council (1904) which brought international attention to suffrage.
 * An organization genius -- her canvassing plan is still used today by grassroot and political organizations.
 * Gave 75-100 speeches a year for 45 years, traveling throughout the the United States by stage coach, wagon, carriage and train.
 * Led the only non-violent revolution in our country's history -- the 72 year struggle to win women the right to vote.

In her friendly town of Rochester, Susan B. Anthony with her friends along with a dozen other women registered for the election of 1871. The following day forty other women followed in her footsteps. On election day fifteen of these women including Susan B. succeeded in voting. Susan B. was arrested and found guilty. She was ordered to pay a fine of one-hundred dollars and replied, "May it please your honor, I will never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty." The fine remains unpaid to this very day.Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton became "inseparable colleagues" in the fight for women's emancipation. After the Civil War, Susan B. Published The Revolution, a magazine which was centered around the Women's Suffrage Association. Their motto was: "The true republic-men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less." Susan B. became the acknowledged spokeswoman for the campaign and was considered one of the most famous and respected woman in America. (Sochen, 135) Susan B. Anthony, a "spinster devoted her life to the women's movement whereas Elizabeth Cady Stanton' progress was curtailed until her children were grown. (Ryan) 1. What are the adjectives you would most use to describe the person?

2. What examples from their life illustrate those qualities? 3. What events shaped or changed this person's life? 4. Did he or she overcome obstacles? Take risks? Get lucky? she was arrested and charged with knowingly casting an illegal vote in a federal election. Anthony hoped to use her case to secure from the Supreme Court a ruling that the recently enacted "citizenship" and "privileges and immunities" provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed to women as citizens the "privilege" of voting.

Why Should (insert name) Be Remembered?: Anthony's last public speech was in Washington on her eighty-sixth birthday, February 15, 1906. She spoke of the Stanton,Lucretia Mott, and the many other women who had battled at her side--some for over half a century--for women's suffrage. She ended her speech on an optimistic note: With such a worthy cause as theirs, "Failure is impossible!" Less than a month later, on March 13, Anthony died in her home in Rochester. Ten thousand mourners attended the funeral of the woman who had devoted a lifetime to the cause of justice for women. Anticipating the day a few years earlier at a family reunion, Anthony requested: "When it is a funeral, remember that there should be no tears. Pass on, and go on with the work." In 1920, one hundred years after Anthony's birth, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified,extending the vote to women.

1. Would the world be better or worse if this person hadn't lived? How and why? the world would be worst. women know probably wouldnt have rights like they do know. women wold not as important or educated as today if she didnt say any of those speeches or fought for womens rights. 2. What can we learn from this person's example? we can learn that every one should have the same rights, men and women. also never give up on somthing u really want, fight for what you belive.