Suffragetts/suffragists Flashcards
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Suffragettes tactics
Window smashing
Cutting phone wires
The Derby incident
Hunger strikes
Slashing paintings
Sending letter bombs
Attacking Mps
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Reasons why women received the vote
Hw suffragettes
The role of ww1
The suffragists
The changing role of women
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Suffragist tactics
Held public meetings
Peaceful methods
Petition
Meetings
Letters and pamphlets
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We’re suffragists succesful
1914 women still did not have the vote
50 thousand members of the NUWSS at one point
Persuaded half the countries to support the cause
When did women get the vote
February 1918 women over 30 get the vote
1928 women over 21 get the vote to become equal to men
Suffragettes public events
14th March Mary Richardson slashed the romesbys venus painting
1914 dundee suffragettes tried to blow up dudhope castle
Winston Churchill visited he was verbally abused by women
Marion Wallace dunlop
First women to go on hungar stroke
She did this to draw publicity in jail
Solution to hungar strike
Force feeding
This didn’t work women would make themselves throw up
How did the Suffragettes harm the cause of votes for women
Bad publicity