Susan B. Anthony's Quaker upbringing greatly influenced the role she played in nineteenth-century America. Quakers did not believe in armed conflict or slavery, and they were among the first groups to practice full equality between men and women. Other American women did not experience the freedom and respect Anthony did while growing up. She worked to change that disparity, by becoming a leader in the crusade for women's rights. Born in 1820 in a New England farmhouse, Anthony was the daughter of Lucy Read Anthony and Daniel Anthony. Daniel was a cotton-mill owner who instilled in his children the ideas of self-reliance, self-discipline, and self-worth. Both Anthony's parents were strong supporters of the abolitionist and temperance movements due to their Quaker background. They also believed in the importance of work, and Anthony performed many tasks in her father's factory while attending school. Anthony completed her schooling at the age of seventeen and began teaching!

school in New York state. She was soon fired from this job after protesting her wage was one-fifth that of which her male colleagues earned. She went on to secure a better position as principal of the Girls' Departmen

stion their exclusion from politics, and, by insisting that voting rights be based on citizenship and not on sex, established firm ground for a political challenge to the status quo. Her life's work paved the way for the passage of the 19th amendment in 1920, which at long last gave women throughout the United States the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony, born February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts, was one of seven children of Daniel and Lucy Read Anthony. Though her mother had been raised a Baptist, the young Anthony was brought up in her father's Quaker faith. The Quakers, also known as the Society of Friends, believed in the concept of the Inner Light -- the representation of God in each person's soul -- and did not rely on clergy to lead them to salvation. This egalitarian ethic led many Quakers to participate in the abolitionist movement during the 19th century, including Daniel Anthony, and later, Susan B. Anthony herself. Though Quaker women at that time still played!

ion as a principal of a girls school, and continued teaching for more than ten years. In 1849, she left teaching and her second career as an activist began. She joined the local temperance society, and when she was denied the right to speak at a Sons of Temperance meeting because she was a woman, she founded the Daughters of Temperance, the first women's temperance organization in the country. Anthony began writing temperance articles for the Lily, the country's first woman-owned newspaper. Her rising political profile helped her to meet other activist women, including those involved in the abolitionist movement and suffrage movement. She met Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1851, three years after Stanton organized the first woman's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. In 1852, Anthony attended her first women's-rights conference, and from then until the end of the Civil War, she campaigned and lectured for the abolition of slavery and for equal rights for women. She organ!

The move to New York--In Massachusetts, her father's cotton mill was very successful, and he was soon asked to manage mills at Battenville, New York. The family moved there in 1826 when Susan was 6 years old. Soon the family was in a large brick home.

women to develop their individual talents, men are denying society all the contributions women could make to improve society. Moreover, by denying women the right to develop their skills and self-confidence in their abilities, she argues, men are hurting the family. Dependent, uneducated, protected, and isolated women can't possibly raise intelligent, independent, confident children. Thus, Bullard argues that granting women equal rights supports God's will, protects and supports the family, improves women's lives, and helps the larger society.

But the Court now runs into a little problem. Under the law, single women can own property, sign contracts, control her wages, and protect her rights, so what keeps single women from practicing law in Illinois? The Court now concludes that it is a women's "destiny and mission to be a wife and mother" and therefore single women can't practice law. The Court argues that it will only rule "on the general constitution of things, and cannot be based upon exceptional cases."

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