Suffrage Flashcards
When did the government release all the suffragettes from prison?
August 1914
What happened in July 1915?
The suffragettes did a ‘right of work’ campaign.
List 6 methods the suffragettes used to protest.
1) Deliberately getting sent to prison.
2) Attacking property and breaking windows.
3) Committing arson
4) Bombings
5) Interrupting meetings
6) Hunger Strike
List 5 methods the suffragists used to protest.
1) Issued leaflets
2) Public debates
3) Collected petitions to present to people in power
4) Held meetings with polititions
5) Held marches
What does sufferage mean?
The right to vote.
Between what years was Emmeline Pankhurst imprisoned several times for ‘civil disobedience’?
1908 - 1913
What does WSPU stand for?
Women’s Social and Political Union.
When did the move for women to have to vote really begin?
In 1897
What does NUWS stand for?
National Union of Women’s Suffragge
Who created the National Union of Women’s Suffrage?
Millicent Fawcett
Name 3 arguments the Suffragists used.
1) women could hold responsible posts in society such as sitting on school boards – but could not be trusted to vote
2) she argued that if parliament made laws and if women had to obey those laws, then women should be part of the process of making those laws
3) she argued that as women had to pay taxes as men, they should have the same rights as men
4) one of her most powerful arguments was that wealthy mistresses of large manors and estates employed gardeners, workmen and labourers who could vote but the women could not regardless of their wealth.
When was the Women’s Social and Political Union founded?
1903
When did the suffragettes begin to get violent? And what was their first act of ‘civil disobedience’ ?
1905 when they interrupted a political meeting in manchester to ask Winston Churchill and Sir Edward Grey (Liberal Politicions) if they thought women should have the right to vote.
Why were the Suffragettes forcefed in prison?
Because they went on hunger strike and the government didn’t want the movement to have martyrs.
