Question

Can you please write a one page essay on the life and accomplishments of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Thank you!

Answer 1

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born on November 12, 1815, in Johnstown, New York. She graduated from the Emma Willard's Troy Female Seminary in 1832. She was drawn to the abolitionist, temperance, and women's rights movements through visits to her cousin, the reformer Gerrit Smith. She was an abolitionist and leading figure of the early woman's movement. As an eloquent writer, her Declaration of Sentiments became a revolutionary call for women's rights across a variety of spectrums. She worked closely with Susan B. Anthony and for 20 years was the president of the National Woman Suffrage Association. She called for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution giving women the right to vote. In 1965 the Elizabeth Cady Stanton House in Seneca Falls was made a National Historic Landmark. Stanton's house in Tenafly, New Jersey, was declared a National Historic Landmark, in 1975. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, in 1973.