How Did Susan B. Anthony Impact The Women's Rights Movement?

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The 1840s was a crucial time where many women were treated unfairly and decided to get their rights back. There were many important women involved in the women's rights, but I believe Susan B. Anthony had a greater affect on people over all. Her family had taught her many good morals and as well as the fact that as a teacher, she wanted many rights that men had, therefore she strongly believed in having equal rights to vote. Through social action and her writings, Anthony inspired thousands of women and men to fight for suffrage, which eventually resulted in the 19th amendment. Susan B, Anthony developed a strong morals and principles at a very young age, and spent most of her life working on social issues, one being women’s rights. After the Great Depression, her father's business failed in the late 1830s, so Anthony went back home to help her family, and found work as a teacher with a salary of $110 per year("Susan B. Anthony." …show more content…

The exhausting campaign was very successful in Anthony’s eyes. She had publicized her reforms, gotten many more supporters, created four suffrage organizations, and taught Duniway, who explained: “I became quite thoroughly initiated in the movement and made my first efforts at public speaking”. The high point of Anthony’s campaign, was a well-publicized Woman’s Congress arranged by Portland suffragists. She emphasized equal suffrage, claimed that the ballot would end the pay inequity between men and women, and that their cause was “further advanced in the West because the West contain the more liberal progressive element from the East, and any good cause or measure reform is more readily accepted here.” Although newspapers often did not embrace equal suffrage, they provided better coverage and did not resort to

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