Everything started when in many countries lawmakers began to grant equal rights to all classes of men as well as the elite. Women say this as their opportunity to,”carpe diem,” or seize the day. At this time, in the early 19th century, most married women were not acknowledged legally aside from their relationship with their husbands. This was known as coverture, which forbade a married woman from being a party in a lawsuit, being on a jury, owning property in her name, or creating a will of her own. Also at this time a religious reawakening was spreading fast. This in part inspired the key women involved in the early Women’s Rights Movement (Encarta).

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born November 12th, 18

Susan B. Anthony started her involvement in the Women’s Rights Movement when she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the Seneca Falls Convention. They became life long friends and partners in the fight for women’s rights. The two worked for six years from 1854 until 1860 to reform the laws on women’s rights in the state of New York. Because of her children, Stanton could not verbalize her own speeches. Susan B. Anthony stepped in and would often read the speeches written by Stanton to an enthusiastic crowd of Women’s Rights Supporters (Encarta). Stanton and Anthony fought for many things including divorce reform, birth control, and the challenge to religious assumptions that opposed legal rights for women (www.rochester.edu/SBA/sbaecs.html).

One of Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s closest friends and associates was Susan B. Anthony. Anthony was born February 15th, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts. She was the second of eight children. She eventually settled down in Rochester, New York where she began her teaching career at age 15 (Encarta). Her father raised her as a liberal Quaker and while in Rochester, she began her first ever involvement in the temperance movement against alcohol (www.history.rochester.edu/class/sba/bio.html).

15, in Johnstown, New York (Encarta). Her early life was full of countless meetings with fugitive slaves at her cousin, Gerrit Smith’s home. This gave her an early background in reform movements. In 1840 she married Henry Stanton and they soon found themselves at 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. Also at the convention was future Women’s Rights Activists Lucretia Mott. The women were turned down when asked for seats at the convention and it is due to this rejection that they decided on having their own convention. This one was not to be for anti-slavery, however. It would be to discuss the equal righ

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