Emmeline Pankhurst

Question 1

Where was Emmeline Pankhurst born?

Answer 1

Manchester

Question 2

What “league” did Emmeline Pankhurst set up?

Answer 2

The Women’s Franchise League

Question 3

In what year did Emmeline Pankhurst set up the Women’s Franchise League?

Answer 3

1889

Question 4

What did the Women’s Franchise League campaign for?

Answer 4

Married women to get the vote in local elections

Question 5

Which political union did Emmeline Pankhurst help found?

Answer 5

WSPU

Women’s Social and Political Union

Question 6

Which was the first political group to be called “suffragettes”?

Answer 6

Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU)

Question 7

What tactics did the WSPU use to campaign?

Answer 7

Civil disobedience: chained to railings, smashing windows, arson, hunger strikes.

Question 8

What year did women over 30 get the right to vote?

Answer 8

1918

Question 9

What year did women over 30 get the right to stand for Parliament?

Answer 9

1918

Question 10

What was a contributing factor to women being granted the right to vote and stand for parliament in 1918?

Answer 10

Women’s contribution to the war effort during WW I.

Question 11

What year where women given the right to vote at the age of 21 (same as men)?

Answer 11

1928