RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
WOMENS SUFFRAGE
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Question
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Susan B. Anthony was arrested for shoplifting.
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Susan B. Anthony was a member of the NWSA who voted in a presedential election before it was legal for women to vote.
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Susan B. Anthony was a member of a group of women who robbed a bank.
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Susan B. Anthony was a member of the AWSA who chained themselves to a tree in front of the courthouse in protest.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Abolition, temperance, and women’s suffrage The rebuff of Anthony’s attempt to speak at a temperance meeting in Albany in 1852 prompted her to organize the Woman’s New York State Temperance Society, of which Stanton became president, and pushed Anthony farther in the direction of women’s rights advocacy.
Detailed explanation-2: -Susan B. Anthony was a pioneer in the women’s suffrage movement in the United States and president of the National Woman Suffrage Association, which she founded with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Anthony’s work helped pave the way for the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1876, she led a protest at the 1876 Centennial of our nation’s independence. She gave a speech-“Declaration of Rights”-written by Stanton and another suffragist, Matilda Joslyn Gage. “Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.” Anthony spent her life working for women’s rights.
Detailed explanation-4: -1856 – Anthony becomes agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. 1857 – At a New York State Teachers’ Convention in Binghamton Anthony calls for education for women and Blacks. 1861 – Anthony conducts anti-slavery campaign from Buffalo to Albany-“No Union with Slaveholders. No Compromise.”