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    Susan B. Anthony was a leading figure in the Abolitionist and Women’s Suffrage Movement. In 1866, she partnered up with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to form the American Equal Rights Association. This group was radical, and very controversial, considering that not all women agreed or even wanted voting rights. Later on in 1869, Susan and Elizabeth formed an even more radical group known as the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), that took place in New York. Soon after, Susan B. Anthony was arrested

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    Susan Brownwell Anthony is best known to others as the woman who started women’s rights movement for the feminists that came after her. Susan B. Anthony was a vital activist for her time, she was a member of the anti- slavery movement and helped create the woman’s suffrage movement. She spent her entire life fighting for what she believed was right; her determination and fight made her extremely successful in her work as an abolitionist and women’s rights leader, which is conveyed through her many

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    inequality. One of the most famous and most powerful movement is “Women’s Suffrage”. The movement of women that call for their right to vote. Susan B. Anthony, the woman who influences in progress of women’s suffrage. Belief of Anthony effect on American society. Belief that everyone in society should be equal and she believe that she can create this equality. Anthony devoted herself to fight for women and to be the leader of women’s suffrage. She can be the principle of women’s suffrage because problem

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    Susan B Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts she was born in a Quaker family. She lived in New York in the 1840s to fight against slavery. The meeting was being held in a farm the meeting was mostly about the abolitionist movement, she

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    Susan B. Anthony and Angelina Grimke were extremely influential characters of their time. Both Anthony and Grimke believed in freedom for slaves and women. Anthony and Grimke were also both quakers, their religious beliefs and personal experiences greatly influenced their opinions on abolition and feminism. Although Anthony and Grimke shared many common values, their backgrounds greatly differed. Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. Anthony was born into a Quaker

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    The memoir “I Escaped a Violent Gang” and the informational text “Susan B Anthony Dares to Vote” share a common theme: courage. Anna in the gang was trying to get out. Susan wanted equality. However, the two stories teach a lesson and have a completely different mood to them. One is a more personal struggle that is violent but hopeful story while one is a fight for rights that has a melancholy but nonviolent feel to it. In the memoir “I Escaped a Violent Gang”, the author shows us that there is

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    Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were considered the founding Mothers of women’s rights. They had a very close relationship. The two of them made a great team. Text one really shows what happens at the convention. At the convention they made twelve resolutions. The third resolution states, “that woman is man’s equal was intended to be so by the Creator, and the highest good of the race demands that she be recognized as such. The ninth resolution called for women to have a vote. An

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    Woodrow Wilson, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Susan B. Anthony share a common purpose in their addresses advocating women’s suffrage.Wilson’s Address to the Senate on the Nineteenth Amendment expresses the opinion he holds about the lack of control over women being able to vote; he prioritizes the use of logos to create an argument consisting of present fact and his own belief of how the rest of the world will see them as a nation if they do not ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. Catt’s The Crisis analyzes

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    post–Civil War years a number of states passed female suffrage acts.” (Adams). In 1848 the Declaration of Sentiments was presented on behalf of women's rights it was for equal rights for men and women. One woman would change how they were treated. Susan B. Anthony's family was a large influence in her life. She was born into a Quaker family and her religion and family life helped played a crucial role in

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    The women suffrage movement officially started in the late 1840’s and officially got ratified in the 1920’s. The movement was founded by three women which included Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucy Stone. The first recorded event for the movement was a convention that was coordinated together Elizabeth and Lucretia during July of 1848 (Dorr 43). The goal of this convention was for women to have equal rights as men and “declare war on the whole status of women” (Dorr 39). Kraditor

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