The start of the group was the Woman's rights convention in the United States that was held in Seneca Falls New York, 1848. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the former leader of the group who made the National Women's Association happen and Susan B Anthony was her partner in crime. 200,000 Women and a couple hundred men joined the National Women's Association group which formed on May 15, 1864. They would participate in speeches, protest, campaigns and more, these women always stood up for what they believed in and made sure that each and every one of them were heard loud and clear. Their main goal was to be able to have an anti-racist organization for dedicated men and women to make suffrage universal and especially make not to discriminate …show more content…
Susan joined a group called The Daughters of Temperance where she had her first public speaking event. The group focused a lot trying the ban alcohol and since her parents were Quakers, they believed that drinking too much was a bad thing. As well as her, the group also believed that people would consume too much alcohol and it needed to stop because it was a threat to the American political system. They petitioned a law that people should have a certain limit of alcohol that they purchase and got many signatures, but the Legislative rejected it. They got 28,000 signatures, but the reasoning behind the rejection was because a great majority of the signatures were from women and children, but even if they majority of men voted they wouldn't let it