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Elizabeth Staton changed America socially and politically, by all of her work of fighting for women's rights and the rights of slaves. She worked for women’s suffrage which gave women the right to vote and strongly supported and protested for the abolition of slavery. Even though Elizabeth fought for the abolishment of slavery she still expressed racist views. She said that she thought it would be better for black women to be a slave to an educated white man instead of an ignorant black man.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement. She was born on November 12, 1815, in Johnstown, New York, by Margaret Livingston and Daniel Cady. Her father was a lawyer and Elizabeth gained her knowledge of law and legal education from listening to him and his colleagues and guests that came into their home. Elizabeth got her education at the Johnstown Academy and at Emma Willard's Troy Female Seminary in New York. Elizabeth would go on and marry Henry Stanton in 1840, Henry was an abolitionist lecturer and would encourage Elizabeth to go and become part of the anti-slavery movement. She would have seven children: Harriet Stanton Blach, Daniel Cady Stanton, Robert Livingston Stanton, Theodore Stanton, Henry Brewster Stanton Jr, Margaret Livingston Stanton Lawrence, and Gerrit Smith Stanton. In Elizabeths later years she would continue to focus on writing and wrote three volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage. She died on October 26, 1902 in New York, New York from heart failure.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1848 put together the first plan to demand women's suffrage in the United States. Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in national and local elections.

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Elizabeth also worked to pass the Married women’s property act of 1848. The Married women’s property act made it for that every married woman was entitled to any life estate if her husband died without leaving a will, which was the only property right to which a woman in the United States had. This act also gave more rights to married women to control their own property, as well as rights to sue for divorce.

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Elizabeth worked with Lucretia Mott to hold the first women’s rights convention in July 1848. She wrote The Declaration of Sentiments (documented the rights that American women should have as a citizen) with Lucretia Mott and Jane Hunt, at the convention one hundred people signed it.

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Elizabeth and Anthony published a newspaper that promoted women's rights, it was called the Revolution and it ran for two years. She also wrote many books (The Woman’s Bible, Writing and Speeches, Solitude of Self).

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She co-founded The Loyal League (organism formed May 14, 1863, that sought to end the American Civil war through an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that abolished slavery) and the National Woman Suffrage Association (wanted a constitutional amendment to secure the vote for women, but it also supported a variety of reforms that aimed to make women equal members of society).

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Elizabeth's travels.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton travels - Google My Maps