Susan B. Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts, in 1820. She grew up in a Quaker community which treated everyone equally.

One thins that Anthony was against was drunkeness. In those days men that constantly drank was aloud to do as they please with their wife and or chldren, that included beating them.

Susan joined the "Daughter of temperance", a group that was against drunkeness. Anthony along with many other women faought for the right to file for a divorce if the causeof divorce

was abuse. the American temperance movement, which aimed at controllin or eliminating the consumtion of alcohol, began to gain momentum in the 1830's. Although women were the main victims

of alcohol abuse, they were barred from any active role in any reform orgainizations. Anthony of course did not listen, she gave plenty of speeches which were successful, she then became

increasingly active in the temperance movement.

Another thing that anthony was deeply against was suffrage, susan b anthony met a women in 1852 in seneca falls, after a lecture had been given by celebrated abolitionist william

lloyed garrison, named eliszabeth cady stanton. together they worked on giving women the smane rights as men. anthony became the movements logician and organizer in their fight, while stanton its theorist

an emotional center. anthony established the " womens new york state temperance society', the first such society formed by and for women. petition drives followed and persistant appeals tot he new york

state legislature met wiht repeated failures until 1860, when the married womens property act was passed and beame the model for similar laws in other states. this act caused a chain reacton in the womens

rights movement. from then on anthony woudl hold meetings, form suffrage associations and constantly present voting laws to congress, though they were rejected she kept on trying. Neither anthony or stanton

lived to see women given the right to vote nationally;that battle would be won in 1920 by the next generation of activists trained and inspired by them.