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=Woman's Suffrage Movement-= The woman's suffrage was women fighting for the right to vote and run for office. This movement went on through the 19th century and early 20th century. They eventually got what they wanted with the Nineteenth Amendment. At the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 women demanded their rights. After the American Civil War the cause became more prominent. The fact that black men were allowed to vote in the Fifteenth Amendment gave women hope for a better future. Stanton and Anthony created an orgnaization called the National Women Suffrage Association. Lucy Stone created the America Woman Suffrage Association. In 1890 the two organizations formed together to create the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).Lucy was an aboltionist and a suffragist. She was the first woman in America, that was recorded, to have kept her own last name after marriage. She helped pass the Thirteenth Amendment to abolish slavery alltogether. Lucy never liked the position were supposed to play, for example she hated seeing her mother be a house-keeper only. Stone wanted to be something in life.She believed in the right to divorce if they wanted to. She died in 1893. Susan B. Anthony was born in riased in Massachusetts. She had to be home-schooled because the local district school teacher refused to teach her. The reason why he refused to teach her was because she was a girl. When Susan was 17 she had to be sent to a boarding school. Her family had to sale everything they had because of the Panic of 1837. Susan was very much so against slavery and temperance. When she was 16 she had two boxes full of signed petitions against slavery. Anythony devoted her life to women's rights. Before she retired she said "it will come, but I shall not see it...It is inevitable. We can no more deny forever the right of self-government to one-half our people than we could keep the Negro forever in bondage. It will not be wrought by the same disrupting forces that freed the slave, but come it will, and I believe within a generation." Anthony joined with Elizabeth Stanton after being refused admission to a convention because of her sex. Elizabeth was against women suffrage and slavery too. Her and her husband were active abolitionist together before he passed away. She acted against many causes including women's parental and custody rights, property rights, employment and income rights,divorce laws, the economic health of the family, and birth control. She devoted her entire life to what she believed in: equal rights. Elziabeth died due to a heart attack in the year of 1902. Abby Kelley Foster was an abolitionist and a social reformer. She became a fundraiser, lecturer and committee organizer for the influentialAmerican Anti-Slavery Society.Kelley went to a boarding school because her district had no school for all girls. Her family, being quakers, had many different ideas than Abby. She worked with another abolitonist named Angelina Grimke. Kelley gave her money to fundraisers like the Lynn Female Society. She died in the year of 1887.Angelina was a political activist, abolitionist, and a big supporter of the woman's suffrage movement. Her father was a slaveowner and her mother wouldn't let her talk to anyone "below" her. Her sister later became an abolitionist too. Angelina refused to recite the pledge to the church when her time came. She was exiled from South Carolina all togther. After being exiled she moved with her sister Sarah then their sister Anna moved in too . Sarah Grimke was Angelina's sister and an abolitionist as well. She was also a write and a suffragist. Sarah, at the age of thirteen, asked to be the god mother of Angelina since they were so close. Grimke wanted to be an attorney but was denied because of her sex, she was even denied an education. She learned things that were suitable for young ladies at that time. She felt very confined herself, therfore, she felt a connection with the slaves and wanted them to be free. Grimké was the author of the first developed public argument for women's equality and she strived to rid the United States of slavery, Christian churches which had become “unchristian,” and prejudice against African-Americans and women. The things she wrote gave abolitionists such as Lucretia Mott things to argue over. Lucretia Mott was an American Quaker, abolitionist,social reformer, and proponent of women's rights. She was sent to a Quaker boarding school at the age of 13.Her interest in women's rights began when she discovered that male teachers at the school were paid three times as much as the female staff. All of her children all became active in the anti-slavery and other reform movements. Mott died on November 11, 1880 of pneumonia at her home.