The Elizabeth Cady Stanton Impact

              Elizabeth Cady Stanton is an incredibly well known American leader and historical figure, she was known for her involvement in the women's rights movement during the 1800s. She assisted the nation in taking major steps forward for women's rights and freedoms. 

              Elizabeth was born in New York in 1815 to where she grew up to receive a formal education. Her father was a successful lawyer and anything school refused to teach her since she was a girl she learned from listening to him. In her early life, she focused on school and became a very educated young woman for her time. By the time she was in her mid-twenties, she had joined the anti-slavery movement.  She traveled with them to spread awareness and was an important advocate for freedom for the black people of America and for the abolishment of slavery in all states. Although despite her dedication to this moment she soon became angered that women were not allowed to be as involved in the movement as men. She realized that discrimination of races lived even in groups fighting for equality and freedom. She found this very unfair and ridiculously ironic. She vowed to help in the female fight for equality. By 1848 Cady held her first women's rights convention, it was located in New York. This is where she established “The Declaration of Sentiments” which added the word woman to the declaration of independence. This was a huge step for women's rights, it finally gave women a chance to be represented and to be seen. It extended rights, privileges, and some equalities to them. Although Statton did not stop there, she continued the fight for women to be able to own property and protested around New York. By 1869 Stanton was the president of the NWSA (national women's suffrage association)  along with editing and writing for their journal “ The Revolution.” In her later years of life, she continued to write for women's suffrage and demand the right for women to vote. She published 3 volumes of  “History of Woman Suffrage” along with “Woman's Bible.” Unfortunately, Stanton never got to see women vote during her lifetime, although her fight was not for nothing, just 18 years after she died, women were granted the right to vote. Without her none of that would have been possible, and even though she never got to see her life's work come to life the generations and generations of women after she did, all thanks to her work and dedication.