Susan was born in Adams, Massachusetts in 1820, she championed the social causes of temperance, abolition, women's rights, and labor, using all of her considerable skill to remake the world. She spoke, wrote, organized, circulated petitions, edited a newspaper and taught school. Gertrude Stein called her "the mother of us all." Susan died in 1906.

• Quaker - A Christian religion, also called the Society of Friends. Women and men were allowed to speak at Friends Meetings. Susan B. Anthony's father Daniel was a Quaker and he raised his children with a strong sense of equality.
• Temperance Movement - The reform movement which worked to make alcohol illegal. The majority of the Temperance Crusaders were women. Susan B. Anthony worked in the Temperance Movement during the 1850s.
• Slavery (American) - The ownership of black people (African-American, Negroes) by white people (Caucasians). Slaves worked without pay and they could be sold to other slave owners at any time.
• Anti-Slavery Movement - Abolition. The reform movement which worked to make slavery illegal. Susan B. Anthony and her family were strong abolitionists.
• Women's Rights Movement - The reform movement in which Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton worked to gain equal rights for women. In 1848 women did not have equal rights under the law in the following areas:
• Money Rights - Women who worked or inherited money had to give it to their fathers or husbands.
• Working Rights - The only jobs open to women were teaching, cleaning and factory work. Women earned much less than men in the same jobs.
• Property Rights - Women could not own, inherit or sell property such as land, homes and farms or personal property such as furniture, clothing and household goods.
• Education Rights - Women were not allowed to go to college and few girls went to school
• Speaking Rights - Women were not allowed to make speeches at public meetings.
• Suffrage or Voting Rights - Women were not allowed to vote in local, state or national elections.
• Women's Rights Convention - A meeting of women and men interested in working for equal rights for women. The first Women's Rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York on July 19, 1948 and it was organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.
• Declaration of Sentiments - A document based on the Declaration of Independence which demanded equal rights for women. It stated that "All men and women are created equal." It was written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and read at the first Women's Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York on July 19, 1848.
• Partnership - When two or more people work together to reach the same goal. For 51 years Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were partners in their work to gain the vote for women.
• National American Woman Suffrage Association - Formed in 1890, this organization united the American Woman Suffrage Association founded by Lucy Stone and the National Woman Suffrage Association founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Candy Stanton. Mrs. Stanton was president until 1892 and Miss Anthony was president until her retirement in 1900 when Carrie Chapman Catt became president.
• "The Cause" - Susan B. Anthony's name for the suffrage movement. She worked for over 50 years to help women win the right to vote.
• Suffrage - The vote, the right to vote.
• Suffragist - A person who supports extending the right to vote to others, especially a person who worked in the movement to get women the right to vote. Women who worked in the movement were also known as suffragettes.

Friends of Susan B. Anthony. Most everyone knew of Susan B. Anthony and her work with suffrage. Many people called her "Aunt Susan." The following is a list of women who knew Susan B. Anthony or worked with her in the suffrage movement. Some of the figures are on the Women in History performance list.

ACTIVITY: Choose one of Susan B. Anthony's friends and find out more about her.

Susan B. Anthony worked in the Temperance Movement, the Anti-Slavery Movement and the Women's Rights Movement, but she dedicated the majority of her life to "The Cause" or suffrage, getting women the right to vote. To gain suffrage for women Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton worked as partners for 51 years.

ACTIVITY: Organize an 1848 Women's Rights Rally. Have the students choose a partner to work with. Possibly, one student could write a speech (Elizabeth Cady Stanton) and the other could give the speech (Susan B. Anthony). Have each team choose a topic from the rights denied women in 1848: Money; Education; Working; Speaking; Property; Voting.

Create Women's Rights posters and signs using the partner concept.

Have someone read the Susan B. Anthony amendment. When did women gain the right to vote? (1920). How long did it take for women to get the right to vote from the time of the first Women's Rights Convention? (72 years).

OBJECTIVES: Democratic Processes Grades 3-5; Citizenship Rights & Responsibilities Grades 3-5. Skills: co-operation, group skills, fact vs. opinion, citizenship traits.

SENSITIVITY SESSION: This exercise whould help the students experience what it was like for women not to have the right to vote. Create a class voting situation. Choose an issue in which all students would like to participate, such as a class party, field trip, etc.. Describe the options but do not tell the students that certain ones will not be able to vote. When the students raise their hands to vote, tell each boy (or, blue-eyed, brown-haired student - your choice) that he cannot vote. Speak to each one and tell him you understand he would like to participate but may not. Inevitably some boys will become angry, some will say they do not care and some will want to know why. Point out that when women could not vote, many felt the same way -- some were angry, some demanded their rights and some were apathetic. Use this exercise to discuss how Susan B. Anthony felt when she was arrested, put on trial and fined for voting in 1872. Discuss voting as a right and responsibility.

OBJECTIVES: Citizenship Rights & Responsibility; People in Society - Diversity & Comparison Grade 3-5.

Susan B. Anthony traveled thousands of miles each year throughout the United States and Europe giving speeches on suffrage (75 to 100 speeches per year for 45 years). She traveled by carriage, wagon, train, mule, stagecoach, ship, ferry boat and sleigh.

ACTIVITY: compare the different types of transportation Susan B. Anthony used. Which was the fastest/slowest? the most comfortable/uncomfortable? Discuss why it was necessary for Miss Anthony to travel to communicate her message about suffrage. Discuss her communications options from 1851 to 1900. (She did publish her own newspaper about suffrage from 1868 to 1870 but she had to stop publication due to a $10,000 debt.)

OBJECTIVES: American Heritage - Transportation & Communication Grade 5.

On May 25, 1892 Susan B. Anthony participated in the Eighth Annual Ohio Woman's Suffrage Convention in Salem, Ohio.

ACTIVITY: Using a map, trace her probable route from Rochester, New York to Salem, Ohio. (In 1892 a train traveled from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Cleveland, Ohio with stops in Alliance and Salem. Trains traveled approximately 40 mph. How long did this trip take? How long would it take today?

OBJECTIVES: American Heritage - Geography Grade 3; Ohio History Grade 4; Transportation Grade 5.

Also, Booker T. Washington spoke in Salem, Ohio on June 22, 1906 to celebrate the Anti-slavery Movement.

ACTIVITY: What other information can you find out about Salem, Ohio?

OBJECTIVES: American Heritiage - Ohio History Grade 4; People in Societies - Communities Grade 3; Ohio History Grade 4