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MINI-BIOGRAPHY!
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Susan B. Anthony was born February 18, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. She died March 16, 1906, in Rochester, New York. Dying at the age of 86, Susan accomplished many things that only fell into place in the 1920's. She is mostly known for going out of her way to make woman have the right to vote.
Susan grew up in a Quaker household, meaning she was a Christian, whom believed in equality and peace for the world. They also believed in heavy education. She grew up in Adams, Massachusetts.
Susan grew up in a family of eight. She had three sisters named Mary Stafford Anthony, Hannah Anthony, and Guelma Anthony McLean. Her two brothers were Daniel Read Anthony and Merritt Anthony. Susan's father's name was Daniel Anthony and her mother's name was Lucy Read.
Today, women celebrate Susan by putting their, "I Voted" stickers on her grave in the Mount Hope Cemetery. If it wasn't for Susan, women might not have many rights, including receiving an education. Also, in 1979, Anthony was celebrated by being the first woman to be inducted in the US currency.
After Death
Susan B. Anthony has accomplished a lot, including teaching, helping in the abolitionist movement, working on her father's farm, writing, and is most known for fighting for woman rights.
Susan B. Anthony died March 13, 1906 in Rochester, New York. She died of pneumonia at the age of 86. Susan felt like she had accomplished nothing. Her work didn't pay of at the time, but she gave women hope. The women kept fighting for their rights and in August 1920, the 19th Amendment was passed. Woman now have the voting rights that men had!
Traits
Susan B. Anthony was headstrong, independent, wise, and powerful. She knows that the more she tries, the better she gets.
"The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain."
Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for voting illegally in the 1872 presidential election.
In Susan's time, woman couldn't vote, couldn't own property, belonged to their husbands, were not educated, and so on. Since she was three, Susan was determined to stop this. In 1851, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Together, they helped create the American Equal Rights Association and started the magazine The Revolution. This was a newspaper that talked about woman's rights in the late 1860s. The magazine's motto was, "Men their rights, and nothing more; women their rights, and nothing less."