It was election day in 1857, nearly fifty years before women were legally granted the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony lined up beside those who were empowered by the United States constitution, at the time only white men, and cast her vote. She was later arrested, fined one hundred dollars, and faced a trial for her audacity to participate in the election of government officials (Schmidt 1). Anthony wrote that her trial was the “greatest outrage History ever witnessed” (Ulaby 1). Nearly one hundred and fifty years following Anthony’s historic vote, and one hundred years after the ratification of the 21st Amendment, the nation reflects upon Anthony’s strength, conviction, and principles which ultimately made her a key contributor to the women’s suffrage movement. Former U.S President Donald Trump took to exercising his constitutional, executive power to issue a presidential pardon of Susan B. Anthony for being convicted of voting illegally. However, with this pardon, Trump h...