Campaign For womens Suffrage PART 4

Question 1

Franchise/ suffrage

Answer 1

The right to vote in public elections

Question 2

1870

Answer 2

Married women’s property act -allowed women to control income and property after marriage
-Richard Pankhurst helped

Question 3

1897

Answer 3

Mellicent Fawcett wife of liberal amp Henry Fawcett united all groups in campaigning for women’s suffrage

• became known as suffragists
• collection of middle class women who used peaceful methods to extend the franchise

Question 4

Tactics of NUWSS (suffragists)

Answer 4

• pressure MPs
• leaflets and petitions
• when government did not pass legislation in 1912 for universal suffrage they started a pilgrimage from Carlisle to London

Question 5

1903 Sufragettes

Answer 5

• emmeline Pankhurst and daughters Silvia and christabel decided it was time to take action
• forked Women’s social and political union
• motto was ‘deeds not words’ took a more militant approach

Question 6

Tactics of WSPU

Answer 6

• vandalised MPs houses
• burnt down buildings (arson) 1912
• chained themselves to fences
• 1909 physical attacks on MPs
• hunger strike in prison
• women in prison carved ‘v’ in chest to show devotion

Question 7

WFL

Answer 7

-some women who disagreed with pankhursts militant approach formed the women’s freedom league

Question 8

1913 Derby horse Race Epsom

Answer 8

• derby horse race Epsom’
• Emily wilding Davison attempts to stick a rosette on kings horses and is trampled became the first martyr
• showed how far the suffragettes were willing to go

Question 9

What Act was passed in 1913 and why

Answer 9

• cat and the mouse act (prisoners temporary discharge for ill health act )
• suffragettes would go on hunger strikes in prison
• government could not let them die as they were middle class and had influential husbands and fathers
• force feeding led to disabilities so they temporary discharged them to get better then they re- arrested them

Question 10

Response to militancy

Answer 10

• people argued the NUWSS were restricted as the WSPU violent tactics made them look irrational and unworthy of the vote
• prime minister Herbert Asquith believed politics was for men and blacked many acts

Question 11

The war

Answer 11

• women proved they could do the same jobs as men and look after the home
• women ran family businesses worked on farms and in factories became known as the ‘angle of the factory’

Question 12

1918 Representation of the People Act

Answer 12

Representation of the people act

• gave all men over 21 the right to vote
• women over 30 with property qualifications

Question 13

What right was given to women in 1928

Answer 13

Women given vote regardless of wealth

Question 14

Long term significance 1960

Answer 14

Women’s movement uk and USA

-equal pay // moe women in higher education // 24 hr health care // free contraception

Question 15

What right was given to women in 1969

Answer 15

Divorce act

-easier to divorce

Question 16

what act was passed in 1970

Answer 16

Equal pay act

Question 17

what act was passed in 1975

Answer 17

Sex discrimination act gave women more security in workplace

Question 18

what did Millicent Fawcett say (leader of suffragists)

Answer 18

“I can never feel that setting fire to houses and churches and litter boxes and destroying valuable pictures really helps to cornice people that women ought to be enfranchised”

Question 19

What did Emmelien Pankhurst (leader of suffragettes) say

Answer 19

“I would rather be a rebel than a slave”

Question 20

what did the Suffragettes do in WW1

Answer 20

-suspended campaign and paved themselves worthy of the franchise through taking ove rumens jobs

Question 21

what did the women’s role in WW1 lead to

Answer 21

Representation of the Peoples Act in 1918 which gave women over 30 (who owned property) the right to vote