Suffragettes Flashcards
What was vote based on in mid 19th century?
Value of property (excluding working class and women) 2%
1918- peterloo massacre - What happened?
Working class demanded vote and protested in Manchester. Local authorities sent out cavalries to charge the protestors. 18 were killed and hundreds injured.
What was the charlstist movement?
A protest through multiple ballots to get ‘one man, one vote.’
What did Charlstist movement lead to?
vote for property only men
What stopped suffragists for the time?
Ww1. Catalyst for many changes
1857 Matrimonial Cause Act - what did it do?
Gave men right to divorce women
1882 - Women’s property act - What did it do?
Gave men the right over women’s property. Men superior.
1894 - Local Government Act
Gave married women right to vote locally
1897 - What did Milicent Fawcett create and how did they protest?
NUWSS (suffragists) protested peacefully in campaigning through petitions.
1908 - Anti- suffrage
Protestors put forward petition to keep women ‘at home’ and got many votes.
1913 - June 1914 - Sylvia Pankhurst
Met with PM Asquith to put forward arguments for votes for women. Denied
1903 - What did Emmeline Pankhurst do?
Took fight to the streets. She set up the WSPU (suffragettes) and disagreed with Milicent Fawcett on protesting methods. Prefered militant actions and saw herself as a militant general.
Where was Pankhurst born and how did it affect her?
Was born in Manchester and saw how it was mostly built for men. Decided to campaign for women very young, as a teen. Women were legally disadvantaged.
Window Smashers
Person: Charlotte Marsh
Targeted large buildings as they were cared for by government. Caused 4k damage and was not responded positively by government.
How did WSPU protest?
Burnt postboxes, bombed buildings, endured forcedfeeding, prisoned sentences and some lost their lives. Attacked property as it was all government cared for. They needed attention!
Bomb Maker
Person: Lilian Lenton
Imprisoned first and many members left due to press criticism. Turned to arsen and burnt down buildings.
Art Attacker
Person: Mary Richardson.
Imprisoned and then smashed Rockeby Venus Art. ‘Can replace art but not a life.’ Directing attention to Pankhurst tough time in prison. Press condemned this act vile.
Mastermind
Person: Grace Roe
Disguised to get away from police but was arrested. Went on hunger strike and was force fed.
Martyr
Person: Emily Davison
arrested for burning postboxes. Also hid in HOC to get residency there. In 1913 she was killed by horse. Public sympathy was granted.
Blimp protestor
Person:Muriel Matters
Threw leaflets from hot air baloons after chaining herself to ladies’ gallery in 1908. Government deemed her a genius.
Representation Act (1918)
New PM David Lloyd George was sympathetic. Act got 55 against and 385 for. Act gave women over 30 the right to vote.
