Suffragettes

Question 1

What did Mary Lee do in Australia?

Answer 1

• became a writer and public speaker
• tried to get women and men on her side by focusing on their terrible working lives
• Visited many worshops and factories to get women on her side about womens voting rights
• went to wealthy women to get them to think of the poor

Question 2

What year did Mary Lee support votes for women?

Answer 2

• 1891 - supported votes for women

Question 3

How did Mary Lee help get voting rights for women?

Answer 3

December 1894:
- gathered over 11,000 signatures which were presented to parliament
- the parilament passed the bill not just to let women vote, but also to let them stand for parliament

Question 4

A quote from Mary Lee

Answer 4

• “My aim is to leave the world better than I found it”

Question 5

SA Women and Aboriginals

Answer 5

Helped let South Australian women, including aboriginal women, to have full political equality and power making them the only group in the world to have these rights

Question 6

Her goal

Answer 6

To grant women the right to vote

Question 7

Protecting young girls

Answer 7

Pushed for and forced a law to be made to protect young women by not allowing them to get pregnant of they were under 16 years of age

Question 8

Where did Mary Lee work in 1887?

Answer 8

• Worked at the Womens Trade Union in 1887

Question 9

Mary Lee birth and death

Answer 9

Born:
Ireland 1821

Died:
South Australia 1909

Question 10

Facts about Mary Lee

Answer 10

• In 1879, she came by boat to Australia
• She was a single mother of 7 as she was a widow

Question 11

Why did Mary Lee come to Australia?

Answer 11

• To take care of her son
• He son died just after she arrived in Australia and she didn’t have enough money to go back to Ireland

Question 12

Know when the suffragette movement happened

Answer 12

Around gold rush which was when women didn’t have the right to vote yet (in the 1850’s)

Question 13

The difference between Australia women and those in the US and the UK

Answer 13

• US and UK suffragettes were violent - this is because they got their rights very late (in 1928)
• Australian Suffragists were not violent

Question 14

What were some of the messages about women voting at the time?

Answer 14

• Women had little to no voting rights
• women needed to make a difference using their voice
• nobody thought that women and men were on the same level
• Queen Victoria was against womens rights

Question 15

What to look for when analysing the images?

Answer 15

• Colour
• Image used
• Written on poster