Mini Lesson 2

Kids learn about the biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton a leader of the women's suffrage movement she wrote the Declaration of Sentiments and fought for women's rights.

Elizabeth Cady was born in Johnstown, New York on November 12, 1815. She was the eighth of 11 children. Her father was a lawyer, a state assemblyman, and a congressman. She went to school at the Johnstown Academy and Emma Willard’s Troy Female Seminary. She studied Latin, Greek, mathematics, religion, science, and French. The law was often discussed at home, and she learned that married women at that time had virtually no right to property, income, employment, or even custody rights over their own children. Slavery did not end in New York until 1827, and Stanton’s father was a slaveowner. Peter Teabout took care of Stanton and her sister Margaret.

Experience the work of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony-at home or in the classroom. Track key events in the suffrage movement, delve into historic documents and essays, and take a look at where women are today.

Kids learn about the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution including giving women the right to vote, the long ratification process, the background and history, and interesting facts.

Schoolhouse Rock - Sufferin' till Suffrage.