USA HISTORY

PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973

THE WOMENS MOVEMENT

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What did Elizabeth Cady Stanton do to help women’s rights?
A
She worked with Susan B. Anthony and got writing and theory skills from Susan B. Anthony
B
She helped women gain the right to vote
C
She helped women be able to get an education.
D
She helped the women’s movement began.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Anthony and Stanton co-founded the American Equal Rights Association. In 1868 they became editors of the Association’s newspaper, The Revolution, which helped to spread the ideas of equality and rights for women. Anthony began to lecture to raise money for publishing the newspaper and to support the suffrage movement.

Detailed explanation-2: -Together, they launched a national woman’s suffrage movement, published the newspaper The Revolution, and lectured, lobbied, and protested for equal rights.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1848, she and others organized the first national woman’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. She co-authored that meeting’s Declaration of Sentiments, a document modeled on the Declaration of Independence, and introduced the most radical demand: for womans suffrage.

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