Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth posing for a picture with her baby (http://www.rochester.edu/SBA/images/stanton_big.jpg)

In Johnstown, New York, on November 12, 1815 a very important little girl was born. A girl who would change the way America would be forever. Her name was Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and she gave women in America the right to be treated equally among men. Elizabeth Cady Stanton is my hero because she is a good leader, smart, and brave.

I think Elizabeth Cady Stanton is a good leader. She and three other women formed the Women’s Rights Convention which protested for women rights. They advertised in newspapers, magazines and posters all over New York. Elizabeth declared women’s independence by writing a document of what women wanted. She also thought up ideas which people at the convention would vote on. She could think on her feet. When people around her were angry, she stayed cool and confident. Elizabeth always had a good answer to the problems there were in the convention and to what was happening around them. Elizabeth led the convention to victory of having women rights.

Elizabeth giving a speech to the convention (http://www.legendsofamerica.com/photos-americanhistory/Elizabeth%20Cady%20Stanton.jpg)

I think Elizabeth Cady Stanton is very smart. Elizabeth went to the best school available for girls called the Troy Female Seminary for college. Elizabeth was able to go because women’s rights were becoming a little more equal to men’s rights, and they were creating more schools where girls were allowed. When Elizabeth was a little girl she wanted women’s rights to be equal with men. Elizabeth read books on law, history, philosophy, science and politics, hoping one day she would change things. If Elizabeth was a man, she would have become an important judge or Senator Elizabeth’s smarts helped her go through the movement of creating women’s rights, if she wasn’t smart the Women’s Right’s Convention would have never started.

I think Elizabeth Cady Stanton is brave. Elizabeth’s father wanted her to be a boy. Because of that, she tried to do things men did, starting with horsemanship and learning Greek. When she married Henry Stanton, she refused to agree to the wife’s usual promise to “obey” her husband; instead she kept her maiden name. Luckily Henry, an abolitionist, was fine with that and also agreed that women should have rights. Elizabeth and her cousin, Elizabeth Miller, wore pants to show that they didn’t have to wear dresses. Many women followed their example even though men pelted rocks and eggs at the women. Wearing pants means that you are the person who runs things in a relationship. Elizabeth was brave enough to stand up for women and do what was fair for women, no matter what happened; that’s what makes her brave to me.

Elizabeth posing for a picture (http://www.notablebiographies.com/images/uewb_09_img0656.jpg)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton is a great leader, smart, and very brave and that is exactly why she is my hero. Many boys think they are better then girls, and I don’t think that’s right. Elizabeth showed me that girls should stand up for themselves and show that they are equal to boys, and are allowed to do whatever boys do similarly, and boys could do what girls do. If it wasn’t for Elizabeth, us girls would be treated unfairly, be “owned” by boys and not go to school. If it wasn’t for Elizabeth, I wouldn’t be here typing this paper. Instead I would be cleaning and working at home.