USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Ida Tarbell, who is credited with pioneering what is today known as investigative journalism, publicly opposed women’s suffrage, arguing that a woman’s place is in the home and not in the man’s world-even though her groundbreaking career was an exception to that rule.

Detailed explanation-2: -Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, pioneers of the Women’s Rights Movement, 1891. Perhaps the most well-known women’s rights activist in history, Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, to a Quaker family in Massachusetts.

Detailed explanation-3: -Anti-suffragists argued that most women did not want the vote. Because they took care of the home and children, they said women did not have time to vote or stay updated on politics. Some argued women lacked the expertise or mental capacity to offer a useful opinion about political issues.

Detailed explanation-4: -Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), its primary author, was a leader of the early phases of the women’s suffrage movement, and one of the best-known mothers who supported suffrage. Of her seven children, Stanton had two daughters, Margaret and Harriot.

Detailed explanation-5: -Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association. The primary goal of the organization is to achieve voting rights for women by means of a Congressional amendment to the Constitution.