Midyears: Suffragettes

Question 1

NUWSS

Answer 1

National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies
Millicent Fawcet
Peacful tactics and raising awareness
Suffragists
1897 created

Question 2

WSPU

Answer 2

Women’s Social and Political Union
Created 1912
Emmeline Pankhurst and her family
Motto: ‘deeds not words’
Militant tactics that atrracted attention

Question 3

Suffragists:how they were succesful

Answer 3

More than half of the MPs wanted to give votes to women
Got 280,000 signatures on a petition

Question 4

Suffragettes:how they were succesful

Answer 4

Gained massive publicity
Were able to create multiple branches

Question 5

Suffragists: how they were unsuccessful

Answer 5

Weren’t taken seriously
Slow moving campaign

Question 6

Suffragettes: how they were unsuccessful

Answer 6

Not immediately successful campaign
Limited support outside of the UK

Question 7

Suffragist tactics

Answer 7

Leaflets
Petitions
Marches
Public debates

Question 8

Suffragette tactics

Answer 8

Getting arrested
Attacking property
Arson
Bombing
Interuptting meetings
Refusing to eat in prison

Question 9

1918

Answer 9

Representation of the people act
Women over 30 who were property owners could now vote
9 million could now vote in the UK
All men over 21 could vote

Question 10

1928

Answer 10

All women over 21 could vote

Question 11

1914

Answer 11

August 1914
Government released all suffragettes and the leader of the WSPU called off the militant actions
June 1914
Emmeline Pankhurst is arreseted outside Buckingham palace
August 4, 1914
Britain joins the war against Germany following the invasion of Belgium
Late 1914
Women were told to give men white feathers if they weren’t in the war

Question 12

1915

Answer 12

May 1915
100,000 women were called up to work wartime industries but to begin with, only 5,000 women worked
May 1915
Mid 1915
Employers didn’t want to employ women because they didn’t think women had skill and also could decrease men’s wages
July 1915
Suffaragette’s march for rights to work and to serve their country in London. Over 30,000 women took part.

Question 13

1916

Answer 13

May 1916
Millicent Fawcett wrote to the prime minister to urge him to let women vote

Question 14

1917

Answer 14

January 1917
Founding of the Women’s
Army Auxiliary Corps
February 1917
Founding of the
Women’s Land Army

Question 15

1918

Answer 15

1918
Approximatley 1.6 million women workers had replaced men and were taking part in war work
February 6 1918
Women over 30 who were householders or wives of householders could now vote