Suffragettes

Question 1

How were women perceived in 1900?

Answer 1

• Women were inferior to the men

Question 2

Name 2 arguments why women shouldn’t have the votes.

Answer 2

• They weren’t intelligent enough to vote

- Women would have the same view as their husbands so there was no point giving their husband 2 votes

Question 3

Name 2 arguments why women should have the vote.

Answer 3

• Women are not the same as criminals or the certified insane
• Britain could not be described as a true democracy when over half the population couldn’t vote

Question 4

Who led the suffragists?

Answer 4

Millicent Fawcett

Question 5

Who led the suffragettes?

Answer 5

Emmeline Pankhurst and her two daughters Christabel and Sylvia

Question 6

Identify 3 differences between the suffragettes and suffragists.

Answer 6

• Suffragists was a democratic organisation but the suffragettes were controlled by the Pankhursts
• Suffragist would use peaceful methods but suffragettes were violent
• Women and men were aloud to going the suffragist but only women were aloud for suffragettes

Question 7

What was the conciliation act and when was it introduced?

Answer 7

It was to give women the vote if it went through parliament and it happened in 1910 and 1911

Question 8

What peaceful methods did women use to gain the vote?

Answer 8

• Propaganda and newspapers
• Petitions to MPs
• Civil disobedience
• Badges and banners

Question 9

Who is Emily Davidson?

Answer 9

She was a suffragette who was arrested 9 times, force fed 49 times. She died by jumping in front of the kings horse

Question 10

What violent methods did women use to get the vote?

Answer 10

• Vandalising paintings
• Burning slogans into race courses
• Window smashing
• Hunger strikes
• Bombings

Question 11

When did women go on hunger strikes?

Answer 11

1909 as they demanded to be treated like political prisoners

Question 12

Did the violence help? Why?

Answer 12

I think the violence helped the women’s votes become more known however I don’t think it helped the cause for the votes. I think this because men used women’s violence to prove they were unworthy of the vote

Question 13

What is Black Friday and when was it?

Answer 13

November 18th 1910

It was where suffragettes went window smashing after news of the bill failing, they were met by police and were attacked

Question 14

What was the cat and mouse act and when was it introduced?

Answer 14

It was where women would be released from prison to recover after hunger strikes, they were arrested after they had recovered

This stopped force feeding

Question 15

How did the press react to the women’s actions?

Answer 15

The press talked about the suffragettes as terrorists and didn’t approve of their actions

Question 16

What happened to the suffrage campaigns during the war

Answer 16

Suffragettes stopped campaigning completely to help with the war effort
Suffragists kept campaigning during the war and Millicent went to conferences to help.

Question 17

What jobs did women do in the war?

Answer 17

Firefighters
Ammunition making
Doctors

Question 18

How important was their war work in helping secure the vote?

Answer 18

It showed that women were intelligent enough to work which proved many campaigns wrong
It also showed the men that the women could fight for their country

Question 19

When did women finally get the vote what was the act called?

Answer 19

Representation of the people’s act

It happened on 6th February 1918

Question 20

Why did women get the vote? (3)

Answer 20

War work
Campaigning before the war
Government