Susan B. Anthony Timeline by Hailey Morgret

1820

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Susan Brownell Anthony was born February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts.

1846-1849

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Susan B. Anthony teaches at an academy for girls and women in upstate New York.

1852

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After being shunned from speaking at a temperance meeting, she is lead to organize the Woman's New York State Temperance Society. The temperance movement promoted avoidance of drinking alcohol and liquor.

1856

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Susan B. Anthony begins service as chief New York agent of the American Anti-Slavery Society. While still being active in the abolitionist movement to end slavery.

1868

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Elizabeth Cady Stantion and Susan B. Anthony found the women's rights newspaper, The Revolution.

1869

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Anthony organizes a women's suffrage convention in Washington, D.C., in January. Later that year, she created and formed the National Woman Suffrage Association.

1872

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Anthony votes in the presidential election. She argues that as she is considered a citizen under the Fourteenth Amendment, she should have the right to vote. For the act of voting, she is arrested and fined $100, but refuses to pay.

1892

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When Stanton retires as president, Anthony becomes president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

March 13, 1906

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Susan B. Anthony dies in Rochester, New York.

August 26, 1920

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14 years after Anthony died, The 19th Amendment was adopted and officialy became part of the U.S. Constitution stating that women could vote.