What Is Susan B Anthony Women's Suffrage

Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. With a long history of activist traditions, her ability to motivate others led her to become an active member in the temperance which was the absence of alcohol, joining women’s rights movement, and woman suffrage. Susan B. Anthony was also an influential speaker of the women’s labor organization and a strong supporter of the abolition of slavery. Throughout her life, she was able to create great and powerful speeches that have persuaded certain universities to admit women into the university such as the University of Rochester. One of her greatest accomplishment of her speeches was called “Woman’s Right to Suffrage” and this speech was used during the women’s right movement …show more content…
From then on, those women who were mistreated took on an idea of holding a women’s convention that discussed the mistreatments of women. During the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton created the Declaration of Sentiments which was a document that was much similar to the Declaration of Independence but in which discussed about the exercising rights of the women. As a result of the convention, over one hundred men and women signed the Declaration of Sentiments. But within the few following days of the convention, there was a continuous flow of mockery and false statements coming from the press that caused the movement of the women’s right declaration to subside. Nevertheless in 1851, Susan B. Anthony joined the cause with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and won victory in 1920 securing the right to vote for …show more content…
Anthony was charged and arrested for breaking the Enforcement Act which was a violation of unlawfully voting in a federal election. During Susan B. Anthony’s trial, she delivered a speech concerning women the right to vote in 1873. Susan B. Anthony begins her speech with, “Friends and Fellow-citizens: I stand before you to-night… it shall be my work this evening to prove to you that in thus voting, I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen's right, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution...whole people—women as well as men” (Anthony, 1). According to the constitution, the word ‘we’ does not specify what kind of gender has the rights therefore, since women and men is the people of the United States, women also has the ability to exercise the powers that is within the