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Susan B. Anthony led the Women's Suffrage Movement—but there's more to her than that. Watch the video to get all the deets.
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- 00:07
Susan B. Anthony, a la Shmoop.
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No doubt about it - America has some crazy laws.
- 00:13
In Iowa, it is against the law to kiss for longer than five minutes.
- 00:19
In Vermont, it is illegal to go more than a week without bathing.
- 00:24
But perhaps the craziest of all was that until 1920, it was illegal for women to vote in the United States.
Full Transcript
- 00:32
We often cite Susan B. Anthony for changing this law,
- 00:36
but was it really Susan’s Suffrage?
- 00:39
Anthony’s activism began after the Civil War, when she pointed out the slight hypocrisy
- 00:45
in allowing freed black men to vote... but not women.
- 00:49
She founded the American Equal Rights Association,
- 00:51
and then got arrested for trying to vote in New York in 1872.
- 00:56
She then refused to pay the ordered fine.
- 00:58
Until 1900, she was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
- 01:04
Susan passed away in 1907, never having been granted the right to vote.
- 01:09
What really got the Women’s Suffrage movement going was the Prohibition and Progressive
- 01:13
Era, which embraced purity and avoidance of crime.
- 01:17
Progressive Era politicians realized that women’s votes could benefit their campaigns.
- 01:22
The participation of women in World War I was the final push…
- 01:25
…and the Nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote was passed in 1920.
- 01:30
So what are your thoughts?
- 01:31
Was Susan B. Anthony the pivotal figure in the Women’s Suffrage Movement?
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Or would women have been granted the right to vote anyways?
- 01:40
Just because it makes good political sense?
- 01:42
Shmoop amongst yourselves.
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