Origins of Women's Suffrage

The Progressive Era brought many reform movements:

• ​Temperance

• ​Child Labor Reform

• ​Civil Service Reform

• ​Civil Rights

• ​Suffrage

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​Industrialization brought women out of the house. They worked jobs outside of the home in large numbers. Ultimately allowing them to get together and enact change.

• Born in February ​15th, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts.

• ​Later moved to Rochester, NY

• ​She was a champion of temperance, abolition, the rights of labor, equal pay for equal work, and equal suffrage.

• ​Traveled around the country with Elizabeth Cady Stanton giving speeches in favor of women's suffrage.

• With Elizabeth Cady Stanton, co-founded the Equal Rights Association

• ​Started a newspaper under the organization called the Revolution

  • ​Stanton and Anthony edited the paper

• ​Anthony grew increasingly famous on her lecture circuit

  • ​Gained many supporters and opposition

• She and her sisters went to a local Barber Shop and demanded to be registered to vote.

• The plan was to be refused, so that the women could sue for damages and bring women's suffrage to the courts.

• The wome​n were registered, and able to vote.

• Anthony's actions were publicized in the newspaper

• ​Three weeks later, a United States Marshall came to the Anthony family house at 17 Madison Street in Rochester. He had a warrant. The charge was knowingly wrongfully and unlawfully voting for a representative to the Congress of the United States.

• ​Susan B. Anthony was arrested and brought to the police station on a trolley.

• ​Anthony was later put on trial for her alleged crime

• The judge presiding over the trial was ​Ward Hunt

  • ​He did not allow Anthony to testify

    • ​Claimed women were not competent enough to do so

    • ​Wrote his opinion before the arguments closed

    • ​Directed the jury of all men to find her guilty

• ​When asked if Anthony had anything to say she stated,

  • ​"...you have trampled underfoot, every vital principle of our government, my natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights are all alike. Ignored, robbed of the fundamental privilege of citizenship".

• ​Anthony was fined $100

  • ​She never paid the fine