uilty, then, the judge got up and left, forgetting to give Susan a sentence, which was a mistake. When he found out about this he came back, fined her $100, and the costs of prosecution. Susan refused to pay it. She was hoping to go to jail for it. Then, her lawyer would appeal to the United States Supreme Court. There, she would have been discharged for not receiving a trial by jury. She was never forced to pay the fine.Susan was fifty years old when all this happened. This was only one of the things she did. In 1850 Susan meet Elizabeth Stanton. Together they lead the American Women’s movement for the next half a century. Ms. Anthony supported the temperance movement. She formed the Women’s State Temperance Society of New York. She published a weekly journal, The Revolution, which demanded equal rights for women. Stanton and others also wrote the Sentiments and Resolution 9 in order to get more people to join the fight. Many woman worked hard to achieve suffrage, and finally they got it. In 1920, the 29th amendment was finally passed giving women the most important civil right, the right to vote. Another woman in the women’s movement was Catherine Beecher. Beecher had a somewhat different tactic. She felt girls should be educated, and gave glory to women’s duties. Ms. Beecher founded the American Women’s Educational Association to promote the need for schools and teachers. In 1833 Oberline Collegiate Institute in Ohio became the first coeducational college. Also in 1841 Oberline became the first college to award degrees to women.Thinking back on the women’s movement, a lot can be contemplated and learned. When presented with the facts, it would have been very easy to foresee a women’s suffrage movement. The women were good enough to raise the children, but they were not able to vote on the schools the children would attend. When women’s roles at home declined, wom...
