LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
REFORM MOVEMENTS OF THE 19TH CENTURY
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She gave speeches
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She wrote in a newspaper
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She protested with other women
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All of the answers
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Detailed explanation-1: -She traveled around the country giving speeches, gathering thousands of signatures on petitions, and lobbying Congress every year for women. Anthony died in 1906, 14 years before women were given the right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920.
Detailed explanation-2: -Anthony, feminists sought to win the vote through four major legal strategies: 1) legislative campaigning in Congress and at the state level, 2) registering to vote and casting ballots, 3) proposing a Constitutional amendment, 4) litigating in court to test women’s rights under the Fourteenth Amendment.
Detailed explanation-3: -Description. Susan B. Anthony devoted more than fifty years of her life to the cause of woman suffrage. After casting her ballot in the 1872 Presidential election in her hometown of Rochester, New York, she was arrested, indicted, tried, and convicted for voting illegally.
Detailed explanation-4: -Susan B. Anthony was a pioneer crusader for women’s suffrage in the United States. She was president (1892–1900) of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Her work helped pave the way for the Nineteenth Amendment (1920) to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote.