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In the short term, the effect of the suffragette movement was to harden preconceptions on both sides of the debate. Those who supported the movement were energised and invigorated by the performances of their heroines. Those who opposed the female vote could point to the silly antics of the extremists as evidence of female irresponsibility.
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The National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House shares the story of Susan B. Anthony’s lifelong struggle to gain voting rights for women and equal rights for all. It was the home of the legendary American civil rights leader during the 40 most politically active years of her life, and the site of her famous arrest for voting in 1872. This home was the headquarters of the National American Woman Suffrage Association when she was its president.
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From a young age, Elizabeth Cady Stanton learned that girls didn't have the same rights or opportunities as boys. Stanton went to Johnston Academy, a co-ed school. She later wrote that she was "the only girl in the higher classes of mathematics and the languages." She wasn't allowed to go to college because she was a girl, so instead she studied at Emma Willard's Troy Female Seminary. Stanton was a firm believer in individual rights, such as the right to vote or the right to have any job for which you are qualified. Stanton's father was a judge. She read law with him but wasn't allowed to practice because, you guessed it, she was a woman. In 1840, Elizabeth Cady Stanton attended the World Antislavery Convention in London with Lucretia Mott, an outspoken Quaker abolitionist (someone who opposed slavery), and some other women representatives. She believed that the laws that treated women differently than men needed to be reformed. Stanton drafted a "Declaration of Rights and Sentiments," which she modeled after the Declaration of Independence. In the document, she called for moral, economic, and political equality for women. In 1848, she presented the document at the Seneca Falls Convention in New York.
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In New England, both girls and boys attended “dame schools”, which offered a program equivalent to that of a kindergarten by today’s standards. A local woman would take in several children and teach them their numbers and ABC’s as well as some other basic curriculum such as reading and writing while going about her daily chores. The program prepared boys with the basic skills needed to enter a town school. The female students were taught womanly skills such as sewing and knitting. After dame schools boys were given the option to continue their education but most girls were not. All but a few towns in New England specifically barred girls from town schools. Girls were permitted to attend town schools towards the end of the 18th century but the change was slow and often involved girls being taught at times separate from the boys.
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