1. PowerPoint by Charlotte Tyson
Susan B. Anthony
Fighter for Women’s Rights
PowerPoint by Charlotte Tyson
Information adapted from American Heroes by Jane Corey and If You Lived When Women Won Their Rights by Anne Kamma

2. Childhood Home of Susan Anthony
Susan Brownell Anthony was born February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts.
Childhood Home of Susan Anthony
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3. Susan’s parents were Daniel and Lucy Anthony
Susan’s parents were Daniel and Lucy Anthony. Her father was a Quaker, but her mother was not. Quakers believe that men and women deserve equal rights. Her aunt Hannah was a Quaker minister, so Susan was used to seeing women treated with respect.

4. Susan’s Family Life Susan had seven brothers and sisters, and they
all helped their parents by doing chores at
home.
Her father believed that girls should get an
education, so Susan learned to read and
write at age four.
Her school master would not teach math to
girls, so Susan taught herself.
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5. Is it a FACT or an OPINION?
In 1826, when Anthony was six years old, she moved with her family to a large brick house in Battenville, New York. The house included a store and a schoolroom. There Anthony, along with her brothers, sisters, and some neighborhood children, were taught in a home school which had been started by her father. Some of her teachers were women.
Girls don’t need to learn higher mathematics such as long division because their brains are too small.
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6. Susan’s father hired women to work in their mill twelve hours a day
Susan’s father hired women to work in their mill twelve hours a day. Many of those workers stayed at the Anthony home.
Susan's mom worked longer than twelve hours a day. She cooked and cleaned during the day. At night, she cooked for women at the mill.
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What character traits did Susan learn from her parents’ examples?
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7. This is how Boston, Massachusetts, looked in the 1800s and how it looks today.
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8. Mr. Anthony thought education was important, so he sent Susan to a special school for young women when she was 17 years old.
Her father’s business failed when she was eighteen. Susan became a school teacher to earn money for her family. She taught school in New York.
This is a picture of Susan taken in 1848 as a 28-year-old school teacher.

9. “When Susan B. Anthony was a schoolteacher, the men teachers in her school earned $10 a week. Susan was one of the best teachers. But because she was a woman, she earned $ Like Susan, most women didn’t earn very much money in those days.” (Quote taken from If You Lived When Women Earned Their Rights.)
It is unfair for men to make more money than women if they are doing the same job.
Fact or Opinion?

10. Women were not allowed to vote in the 1800s
Women were not allowed to vote in the 1800s. Susan's mother and father went to a women's rights meeting in the year of After her parents had told her what some of those rights were, she decided to quit her job as a teacher and work to win women's rights.
This is a parade in New York City in 1913 with women marching for women’s rights.
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11. Women’s Rights Convention Seneca, New York
Susan wasn’t the only woman who fought for women’s rights. In July of 1848 she attended a convention in New York where she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton. These two women became lifelong friends as they worked together writing speeches and traveling all over the United States urging women to stand up for themselves.
“A woman should make her own choices, do her own work, and stand on her own feet.” -- Susan B. Anthony: Fighter for Women’s Rights by Deborah Hopkinson
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12. The Civil War and Slavery
In 1861 all anyone could think about was the war
between the North and the South. Susan agreed
with the abolitionists that slavery was wrong.
She and Frederick Douglas became good friends.
After the war ended, Congress passed the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, giving voting rights to former slaves – but only to men. Women still could not vote!
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How do you think Anthony felt about this?
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13. In 1872 Susan and more than 100 women across the nation went to the polls to vote. She was arrested, but she didn’t have to go to jail. Instead, she was put on trial. The judge found her guilty and fined her $
Her letter was postmarked from Rochester, New York, on Nov 5th 1872
Dear Mrs Stanton    Well I have been & gone & done it!!--positively voted the Republican ticket--strait this a.m. at 7 Oclock--

14. “Failure Is Impossible”
Her last speech was given in She urged women not to give up, using these famous words.
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15. Susan died in The U. S. Constitution was finally changed in 1920 to allow women the right to vote in every state.
“There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.”
Critical Thinking: Do you agree?
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16. Resources
Corey, Jane. American Heroes: Susan B. Anthony. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Hopkinson, Deborah. Susan B. Anthony: Fighter for Women's Rights. New York: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, 2005.
Kamma, Anne. If You Lived When Women Won Their Rights. New York: Scholastic, Print.