Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

AS Level > Histroy (Suffragettes) > Flashcards

Histroy (Suffragettes) Flashcards

1
Q

1870 and 1882 allowed?

A

women to keep property and income after marrige

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

contagious diseases act?

A

stop forced medical examinations of women expected to be prostitutes

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

more working lass girls went to?

A

elementary school, grammer schools were set up for girls (for skilled carrers rather tha cooking lessons) more went to uni (though most didn’t graduate)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

There were 2

A

million domestic servants, worked mostly in textile factories, increased from 20 in 1881 to 447 in 1911 (skilled professions) like banking, post office

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

1834- ?
Women ratepayers could join school boards in and elementary schools were established for ?
1902 Education Act-
Had to be 1 female on distress (payout) committee

A

Woem could be Poor lAw guardians
1870, all boys and girls
at least 1 female on eduation coucils
1905w

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Suffragism ws originally not just for femals but for..?

A

a basic demand of equality and human rights for everyone

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Figures like Forence nightingale and elizabeth fry showed that?

A

women could do tasks/duties originally reseved for men

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

As women got more human rights the next logical step (gradual process though) was?

A

the right to vote

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

Traditional views of women still held though the introduction of?

A

birth control pills meant more freedom

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

Most support came from?

Most oppositon came from?

A

individual liberals- issues with concerns about them voting conservative
Conservatives like Balfour supported it
Conservative peers often opposed it

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Oppostion agaisnt women suffrage?

A

1884-enfraichemsent of most men
(most remaning male non-voters didn’t want women to get the vote)
Poltiical prties- worre about who thy would support -labour’s 1st priroty was to get vote for all men
Trade unions thought of as women as inferior
Some women didn’t want the vote- anti-suffrage league

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

women amde up .. of the conservative primrose league?

women’s liberation federation was formed in?

A

49%

1887

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

NUWSS?

A

Millicent fawcett
non-political, though many high-profile members were part of WFL (1887)
access to liberals
working (tried to broaden appeal to them)- middle-upper class
1910- membership was 21,500

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

WSPU?

A

Emmeline Pankhurst
autocratic-memebrs did’t make decisions
controlled media(difffucult for any oppostion)
criticised for being mainly middle0class (working class tended to join NUWSS)
all bills before 1900-private members-only be considered if currne governemtnbe bothered to waste time on it-always faield
core objective wa to get enough attention to orce them to bring in a suffrage bill

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

Why did the liberal landslide vicotry in 190 give women hope?

A

Many sympatheitic liberals like LLoyd George

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

Millicent fawcett?

A
  • president in 1897
  • used constitiutinal non-violent means
  • strenthened ties between poltiical parties
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

Emmeline Pankhurst?

A

originally in fabien society/ILP
annoed with failure of ILP and NUWSS
formed WSPU in 1903-adopted a militant approach
stopped during war
stood unsucessfully as onservative candidate in 1926 election

18
Q

Tradtional tactics: meetings/conferences increase funds, raise profile of campaigns

A

women spoke at conferences about women’s suffrage
WSPU -trafugalr square (spoke to women)
Feb 1907- first women’s parliment across from houses fo Parliment (liberals first sesssion)
generally legal
1905- Christabek PAnkhurst/Annie Kennedy arrested for heckling Churchill

19
Q

marches/demonstrations- more to get visible attention/unite ralliers

A

Feb 1907- ‘mud march’ >3000 women marched
Nov 1910- suffragettes stromed house of commons - fight with policty-women physically and sexualyl assaulted’black friday’
continued with hunger strikes in prison to draw attention
1911- 40,000 marchers for new king George v
1912- pilgromage from london-edinborough
1913- death of emily davidosn (threw herself in fron of king’s horse- political demonstration)

20
Q

Propagandize?

A

artist’s suffrage league- printed/published posters

wspu- sold badges

21
Q

Civil disobedience?

A

‘no taxaton without represntation
refused to pay taxes, complete cnesus forms e.g. women’s freddom league
census taken every 10 years, in 1911- women arranegd to be whre they could not be found

22
Q

Attacks on property- led by christabel pankurst?

A

> 1905 pouring acid on gold courses, settign light to pillar boxes
1912, attacks intesified- smashing windown of foreign office/importnat governement buildings
1913- Lloyd george’s home in surray was partially destroyed by arson

23
Q

what were the main impacts of militancy by the WSPU?

A
  • attract publicity(keep women’s vote in newppaer)
  • drove women who hated violence inot the arms of the NUWSS membership grew from 12,000 in 1909 to 50,000 in 1912
  • xonvinced those who thought that women were too irrational to vote that they were right
24
Q

How were the surragettes denied proper forms of democratic protest though?

A
  • banned from liberal meeting
  • liberals refused to meet WSPU delegations
  • banned from holding meetings in poublic places
  • printer who published The Suffragette magazine was prosecuted
25
Q

Wat did they do to sufraggetes in priso

A

Initially, they were treated as political prisoners (allowed to wear own clothes/fiood packages)
>1908 they were treated as ordinary criminals (rights taken away), in protest they went on hunger strikes>at first released from prison
To keep them, alive/avoid martyer’s death>force-fed themthrough nose/mouth
>1000 women were treated in this way
1913 Cat and Mouse Act- released when they got ill from force-feeding and rearrested when they got better

26
Q

Wat did they do to sufraggetes in prison?

A

Initially, they were treated as political prisoners (allowed to wear own clothes/fiood packages)
>1908 they were treated as ordinary criminals (rights taken away), in protest they went on hunger strikes>at first released from prison
To keep them, alive/avoid martyer’s death>force-fed themthrough nose/mouth
>1000 women were treated in this way
1913 Cat and Mouse Act- released when they got ill from force-feeding and rearrested when they got better

27
Q

How did their actions in prison get them attention?

A

It kept attention in public eye
-gained them sympathy/many turned agaisnt the government
Churchill- Home Secretary during Black Friday
Although didn’t condone it many fle the could have stopped it or made disaproval clear e.g. by arresting the policeman

28
Q

How was the governement reaction of black friday policeman assault similiar to in Ireland?

A

They turned a blind eye to the law-breaking Ulster Unionists and consulted them in future of Ireland

29
Q

What happened to force Asquith to consider votes for women?

A

DUe to Liberal party’s betrayal, NUWSS set p an electoral fund to support Labour in constituencies where they were oppsoing candidates who were agianst female suffrage
Due to this Liberals lost many by-elections
This put pressure on Liberals (lost their overall majority in 1910 election)
1913- met with NUWSS
1914- met with Sylvia PAnkhurst
evidance to suggest Liberals were about to incldue it in election manifesto

30
Q

The reasons for women getting the vote?

A

> ww1- easy to see women’s contribution in the war as the turning point but..
-acceptance for a need to reform
-Speaker’s conference in 1916-most conference members acknowledged women’s right to vote
-most felt 30-35 year olds
Fear of what party they would vote had gone
Liberals/Labour felt cofident due to social mix-woudn’t all vot Conservative
Conservatioves- most >30 year old were moderatre wouldn’t really matter(wouldn’t vote Labour)
Liberal coalition with Conservatives in 1915- cross party more likely to introduce it
Government in 1916/17- more sympathetic MPs- cabinet-bonar law and henderson
Lloyd George ahd become PM (big supporter)
WSPU’s stopping of militance and women’s contributions allowed men not to lose face
Asquith’s speech- acknowleged women’s right

31
Q

Representation of the People’s Act in .?

A

Feb 1918
all men over 21
all women over 30- who were on a local government regist/married to someone on it

32
Q

Argued that the Act was a compromise and?

A 
No reaso why women shouldn't have got t on the same term as men
that the war delayed rather than speeded it up
The women who risked the most (working class girls in the munitions factories) didn't get the vote
33
Q

what were the main impacts of militancy by the WSPU?

A

-attract publicity(keep women’s vote in newppaer)
-drove women who hated violence inot the arms of the NUWSS membership grew from 12,000 in 1909 to 50,000 in 1912
Support fluctuated after 1912 (subscriptions fell from 4000 in 1909 to 900 in 1913)
-xonvinced those who thought that women were too irrational to vote that they were right

34
Q

What promblems were Liberals facing that made getting the vote to women not a priroty?

A

-1906- massive majority but with Ireland demanding Home Rule and Labour demandign TU legislaton
-In Ireland-crisis over Third Home Rule Bill meant creation of UVF and Irish volunteers who were threatneing civil war
-Intrdoduced a number of reforms after 1906 to help with the poor
The Old age pension >1909 budget>constituion clash with the House of Lords meant needed to win reulsitng 1910 election>by-election losses meant needed to retain majority-female suffrage wasn’t a big vote winner
1908-14- miners strikes/industrial unrest

35
Q

Liberals wanted to intoduce it to all men over 21 and some women(considerign in 1914)-what did emmeline pankhurst want?

A

seperate parliment Act giving the vote to women

36
Q

Most support came from?

Most oppositon came from?

A

individual liberals- issues with concerns about them voting conservative (GFladstone thought it would split the party)
Conservatives like Balfour supported it
Conservative peers often opposed it

37
Q

What liberal pm was aginst it in 1906 and who took over from him in 1908?

A

Campbell-Bannerman- opposed it

Asquith said he would support it if most women wanted it but didn’t introduce it in 1908

38
Q

What happened in 1910 to make Liberls more worried?

A

by-election losses
if they voted fro them in 1910 election- he would introuce free vote on female suffrage
needed to keep women’s liberaion federation o side for election
intoduced a concilation bill (WSPU stopped fighting)>got rid of it>Black Friday fight
4 days after-primsied if woen voted Liberals in Dec 1910 election- he would intoruce a bill giving womenthe right to vote
1913- kept their majority (only with Irish nationilists )- intoruced Cat and Mosue Act
-NUWSS support for Labour- Liberals were getting nerous
By 1914- Asquith accepted the need for a bill

39
Q

What was the Conservative reaction to women getting the vote?

A

Conservative Primrose League- 49%, half a million had joined by 1891
1897- bill passed but didn’t become law(government didn’t was to spend time on it)
They supoorted equal; voting rights so onykl women who owned property could vote
1912 + 1913- they voted against it

40
Q

What was the Labour reaction to women getting the vote?

A

LRC formed- let women join (emmeline Pankhurst was in fabien society)
Loyualty and priroty was to the trade unioon -masculine superioity to women
All Labour MPs in House of Commons had voted or Conciliation Bill in 1910

41
Q

Why did new liberalsim not mean votes for women?

A

Asquith opposed it
Needed to retain majority after by-election losses 1908/09
Irish nationilist held balance of power (opposed it)
Labour wanted suffrage for all men first
Other problems e.g. strikes ect

42
Q 
Failed government legilsation 
1906
1907
1908
1910
1911
1912
A

1906-An ammendment to a plural vtoing bill that w=give it to some property-owning women was refused
1907- women’s suffrage bill was rejected
1908- Commons passed a female surrage bill but it was ultimatly defeated due to Asquith
1910- Conication Bill- extend vote to all women householders on same terms as men (give it to about 1 million women)- WSPU stopped violence
Asquith was against it- even Libheral ministers like Lloyd George and Churchill were aginst it because of worry about them voting Conservative (wealthy women)- even though ILP survey showed 80% of the women were working-class (mostly single-worked/owned own house instead of husband)
The Bill got a massive majority in COmmons but was not a governmen bill but a private members one so didn;t ahev hope
1911- Second Concialtion Bill- gave votes to all women (optional ammndment to give it to some women)- WPU restarted violence
1912- House of Commons said they weren’t going to do the ammendment- bill was defeated

AS Level (74 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2025 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions