Even though childhood was rough for Stanton she overcame all the obstacles her parents threw at her and became a very strong women. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in 1815 to the affluent parents Daniel and Mary Livingston Cady in Jamestown, New York (www.womenshistory.about.com). Her father, Judge Daniel Cady, wa

(www.nps.gov). The world would never be the same again for women. At that convention, she was recognized as the founder and first president of the Woman's Suffrage Organization in America (ibid). At the convention, the leaders planned to speak on a list of grievances based on the Declaration of Independence denouncing unfairness in property rights, education, employment, marriage, and family (www.womenshistory.about.com). Elizabeth was selected to speak on the most radical and controversial reform of all which stated, that it is the duty of women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to vote (www.nps.gov). She insisted on presenting this item because she realized, from her fathers early advice, that "the power to make or change laws was the right through which all other rights could be secured." (ibid). Without the right to vote, no changes could be made (ibid). This item was so radical that even women were split on it, with Lucretia Mott protesting that to bring this idea up "Would make women look ridiculous." (www.womenshistory.about.com). Eventually, Elizabeth and Susan B. Anthony, working as a team, started winning victories such as the 1848 Married Women's Property Act of New York and its amendment of 1860 which allowed wives to finally hold property, keep their own earnings and inheritance, make contracts, sue in court, and share child custody of their own children (www.teacherlink.ed.usu.edu). In 1854, Elizabeth gave her first of many women's rights speeches to the New York Legislature (ibid). She was the first woman granted the right to speak to this body (www.womenshistory.about.com). When Judge Cady heard of this plan, he asked her to stop by Johnstown on her way to Albany so he could hear her speech (www.teacherlink.ed.usu.edu). She was well aware her father condemned the whole movement that she had started and was deeply grieved by her active part in it, but she did as requested and presented her speech in his office (ibid). He was moved to tears and asked, "Where

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