Suffragetes

Question 1

What does suffrage mean

Answer 1

The right to vote

Question 2

What is a suffragist

Answer 2

A person fighting for the vote to be extended to women. They do this with PEACEFUL PROTESTS.

Question 3

Who is Millicent Fawcett

Answer 3

A English politician, writer and feminist. She led the NUWSS

Question 4

What is the NUWSS

Answer 4

The national union of women’s suffrage societies

Question 5

What is a suffragette

Answer 5

A seeking to vote using militant actions

Question 6

Who was Emmeline Pankhurst

Answer 6

English political activist who organised the suffrage movement and she founded the WSPU

Question 7

What is the WSPU

Answer 7

The women’s social and political union. A Union which decided to take direct action

Question 8

Who was Emily Davison

Answer 8

She was a women who ran in front of the kings horse on derby day in 1913 and died 4 days later

Question 9

What was the cat and mouse act

Answer 9

The act which allowed prisoners who were weakened by hunger striking to be released and then recalled back to prison to finish their sentence

Question 10

What was the representation of the people act

Answer 10

It was a act over parliament that all men over 21 and women over 30 who owned property could vote

Question 11

What tactics did suffragettes use before violence

Answer 11

Held mass meetings

Sent deputations to 10 Downing Street

Began to interrupt debates in the house of parliament, heckling from the ladies gallery

Question 12

What did suffragettes start to do when they were still not given the vote

Answer 12

Began chaining themselves to railings

Started to smash windows

Set post boxes on fire

They also created their own newspaper and magazine

Question 13

After 1910 What radial violence did they use

Answer 13

Burned down churches

bombed Lloyd George’s house

Emily Davison in 1913 threw herself in front of the kings horse in derby day. Died after injuries

Question 14

What year did Emily Davison throw herself in front of the kings horse on derby day

Answer 14

1913

Question 15

Why were the suffragettes created

Answer 15

Because the NUWSS hadn’t achieved the right to vote yet

Question 16

When were suffragists formed

Answer 16

1897

Question 17

When were suffragettes created

Answer 17

1903

Question 18

What was the suffragettes magazine called

Answer 18

“Votes for women”

Question 19

What did Millicent Fawcett think about the WSPU

Answer 19

She thought the WSPU was the obstacle in the way of the suffrage movement

Question 20

What was suffragettes desired prison status

Answer 20

They wanted to be given special rights as they claimed to be political prisoners

Question 21

What did women do after being treated as common prisoners

Answer 21

They went on hunger strike and at first they became to weak and were released

Question 22

What did the government do when women started hunger striking

Answer 22

They started strapping women into a chair and force a tube down their throats so food could be poured down

Question 23

How did the public react to the government force feeding women

Answer 23

The media response was to report horrible stories with all details to support the suffragettes

Question 24

What was the governments legislative solution to hunger strike

Answer 24

They introduced a new act. Suffragettes on hunger strike would be released when I’ll, then when recovered they were arrested to finish off the sentence

Question 25

Why did women want to vote

Answer 25

To improve their lives by being able to get good jobs and be independent

Question 26

What were women banned from

Answer 26

Careers like accountancy and medicine

Question 27

Why were middle and upper class women expected not to work

Answer 27

As this suggested their families were in need of money

Question 28

What did society believe the women brain could only cope with

Answer 28

Fashion and children

Question 29

Why was it hard for a women to have an indépendant life

Answer 29

As her wealth legally belonged to a male relative or a husband

Question 30

After marrgige the ……… didn’t even belong to the mother!

Answer 30

Children

Question 31

Why did women stop campaigning in WW1

Answer 31

To contribute to the war effort

Question 32

What 2 new occupations did women get in WW1

Answer 32

They worked in the MUNITIONS movement which was working in factories that made bombs

They also worked in the “women’s land army” where they helped keep British farms providing food for people at home and soldiers in Europe

Question 33

Why being a MUNITIONETTE would be dangerous

Answer 33

Because the chemicals in TNT 🧨 poisoned women 👧

Question 34

When were women first given the vote

Answer 34

They were first given the vote in 1918 but only women over 30 that owned property were allowed to vote.

Question 35

What was the WSPU’s motto

Answer 35

‘Deeds not words’