Suffrage

Question 1

When did the government release all the suffragettes from prison?

Answer 1

August 1914

Question 2

What happened in July 1915?

Answer 2

The suffragettes did a ‘right of work’ campaign.

Question 3

List 6 methods the suffragettes used to protest.

Answer 3

1) Deliberately getting sent to prison.
2) Attacking property and breaking windows.
3) Committing arson
4) Bombings
5) Interrupting meetings
6) Hunger Strike

Question 4

List 5 methods the suffragists used to protest.

Answer 4

1) Issued leaflets
2) Public debates
3) Collected petitions to present to people in power
4) Held meetings with polititions
5) Held marches

Question 5

What does sufferage mean?

Answer 5

The right to vote.

Question 6

Between what years was Emmeline Pankhurst imprisoned several times for ‘civil disobedience’?

Answer 6

1908 - 1913

Question 7

What does WSPU stand for?

Answer 7

Women’s Social and Political Union.

Question 8

When did the move for women to have to vote really begin?

Answer 8

In 1897

Question 9

What does NUWS stand for?

Answer 9

National Union of Women’s Suffragge

Question 10

Who created the National Union of Women’s Suffrage?

Answer 10

Millicent Fawcett

Question 11

Name 3 arguments the Suffragists used.

Answer 11

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.

Question 12

When was the Women’s Social and Political Union founded?

Answer 12

1903

Question 13

When did the suffragettes begin to get violent? And what was their first act of ‘civil disobedience’ ?

Answer 13

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.

Question 14

Why were the Suffragettes forcefed in prison?

Answer 14

Because they went on hunger strike and the government didn’t want the movement to have martyrs.