Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Background Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, New York. She was born on November 12, 1815 to Margaret Livingston and Judge Daniel Cady. Her family had 11 kids, and was the 7th born. Part of Elizabeth’s inspiration came from the death of her brother. She was born to a wealthy family, because her dad was a lawyer.

Her goal and movement Elizabeth start thinking about the discrimination women faced so she got interested after her brother died who was a brilliant student at Union College and so she wanted to copy him and do some achievement. In the age of eleven she decided to get well educated and get all higher classes.  she won the Greek competition, even though she was the only girl in these higher level classes at Johnstown Academy where she attended school. At thirty-three years of age, Elizabeth began to voice her opinion on women’s rights, She later developed a group of men and women who formed the first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York. Elizabeth was voted the president of the Woman’s Suffrage Organization in America

Continue In 1854, Elizabeth Cady Stanton made another huge accomplishment for women; she was the first woman given permission to speak in front of the New York Legislature Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Susan B. Anthony, another Woman’s Rights Activist, and they became close friends and worked as a team, to change the world for women In 1848, with the help of Stanton and Anthony, the Married Woman’s Property Act of New York was passed. This act allowed women to be able to have custody of their children, hold property, make contracts, keep their own earnings and inheritance, and sue in court.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton died in 1902, just 17 years before the Women’s Suffrage Amendment was passed in 1919