Daily Quiz for June 21, 2008

Elizabeth Cady Stanton said, ‘The male element is a destructive force’ in an address to the Women’s Suffrage Convention in Washington, D.C. in 1868. A social reformer and militant feminist, Stanton was born in Johnstown, New York, on November 12, 1815 and graduated from the Troy Female Seminary in 1832. She worked closely with Susan B. Anthony and served as president of the National Woman Suffrage Association. She died on October 26, 1902.