what did susan b anthony do w/ suffrage?

Answer 1

SUSAN BROWNELL ANTHONY pioneer crusader for the woman suffrage movement in the United States and president (1892-1900) of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Her work helped pave the way for the Nineteenth Amendment (1920) to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote.
A tone of independence and moral zeal pervaded Anthony's childhood home, dominated by her father, Daniel Anthony, a Quaker Abolitionist and cotton manufacturer. She was a precocious child and learned to read and write at the age of three. After the family moved from Massachusetts to Battensville, N.Y., in 1826, she attended a district school, then a school set up by her father, and finally a boarding school near Philadelphia.

After teaching at a female academy in upstate New York (1846-49), she settled in her family home, now near Rochester, N.Y., and began her first public crusade, on behalf of temperance. Discouraged by the limited role that women were allowed in the established temperance movement, Anthony helped found the Woman's State Temperance Society of New York, one of the first organizations of its kind. From 1852 on, she joined her friends Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Amelia Bloomer in campaigns for women's rights, even for a time donning the "bloomer" costume of skirt and loose trousers as a sign of protest against the restrictiveness of women's clothing. After 1854 she devoted herself with vigour and determination to the antislavery movement, serving from 1856 to the outbreak of the Civil War (1861) as an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. Later, collaborating with Stanton, she published the New York liberal weekly The Revolution (1868-70) and, calling for equal pay for women, helped organize the New York Working Women's Association. In 1872, demanding for women the same civil and political rights extended to male blacks under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments, she led a group of women to the polls in Rochester to test the right of women to vote. She was arrested two weeks later and, while awaiting trial, engaged in highly publicized lecture tours and, in March 1873, tried to vote again in city elections. She was thereafter tried and convicted of violating the voting laws but successfully refused to pay the fine. From then on she campaigned tirelessly for a federal woman suffrage amendment through the National Woman Suffrage Association (1869-90) and the National American Woman Suffrage Association (1890-1906) and by lecturing throughout the country and in the western territories.

With her close associates Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage she compiled and published The History of Woman Suffrage, 4 vol. (1881-1902). In 1888 she organized the International Council of Women and in 1904 the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. At meetings in London (1899) and Berlin (1904) she was acclaimed worldwide for her pioneer contribution to women's rights.

Answer 2

Susan B. Anthony went into a voting booth and voted, then got arrested for it because women did NOT have the right to vote. She went to jail. She was ready to go to prison, but the judge chickened out. He didn't want to be the judge to actually send a woman to jail for doing nothing more than voting. He released her pending trial, then made sure the trial never took place.

That was just one incident in her life. I know more about it than normal because it's part of my family lore. BEFORE she voted, she told her father and family what she was going to do and how she expected to go to jail. They told her to go for it.

The women in the suffrage movement were not only strong in their own right, but their families quietly supported what they were doing.

Answer 3

What?! She was basically the Queen of women suffrage! She's the only one that I know of, so she's pretty dang important.

Answer 4

she tried to get women the right to vote and stated that the consitition already stated that women could vote.

Answer 5

she suffered first, and then got to vote.