Elizabeth Cady Stanton

(noun)

An American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's movement.

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Examples of Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the following topics:

  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and the Movement for Women's Suffrage

    • Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association to advocate for constitutional rights for women.
    • Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
    • She was co-founder of the first Women's Temperance Movement with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as President.
    • In 1851, on a street in Seneca Falls, Anthony was introduced to Elizabeth Cady Stanton by a mutual acquaintance, as well as fellow feminist Amelia Bloomer.
    • Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  • Women and the Law

    • Paulina Wright Davis, Ernestine Rose, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were among the activists who pressed for the act.
    • One of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's many accomplishments for women's rights was the Married Women's Property Act of 1839.

  • Women in the Early Republic

    • Elizabeth Cady Stanton was conspicuously missing from most of these early conventions.
    • Following an active autumn in 1848, Stanton felt her family pulling her inward.
    • Stanton's strong opinions didn't always make her popular.
    • Anthony emerged as a gifted organizer, and Stanton as a sharp thinker.
    • Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B.

  • Women's Rights

    • The Seneca Falls Convention was hosted by Lucretia Mott, Mary Ann McClintock, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
    • Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an important early figure in the women's-suffrage movement in the mid-nineteenth century.

  • The Campaign for Suffrage

    • Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the other by Lucy Stone.

  • The Progressive Era

    • In 1851, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who became her lifelong friend and co-worker in social reform activities, primarily in the field of women's rights.
    • In 1878, Anthony and Stanton arranged for Congress to be presented with an amendment giving women the right to vote.

  • Women's Activism

    • Prominent leaders of the first wave feminist movement in the United States include Lucretia Coffin Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Sojourner Truth, Mother Jones, and Susan B.