Suffragists And Suffragettes

Question 1

Date
WSPU(suffragettes) founded to campaign for vote

Answer 1

1903

Question 2

Date
Cat and mouse act introduced to tackle hunger striking suffragette prisoners

Answer 2

1911

Question 3

Date
Emily Davison died in a suffragette protest at the derby

Answer 3

1913

Question 4

Date
Suffragettes stopped campaigning as WWI started

Answer 4

1914

Question 5

Date
Married women over the age of 30 gained the vote

Answer 5

1918

Question 6

Date
Women finally got the vote on the same terms as men

Answer 6

1928

Question 7

Millicent fawcett

Answer 7

Leader of NUWSS: peaceful suffragist campaigner

Question 8

Emmeline Pankhurst

Answer 8

Leader of WSPU(suffragettes) is Ho believer in deeds not words

Question 9

Herbert Asquith

Answer 9

Prime minister who was against voted for women but who later changed his mind

Question 10

Mary Richardson

Answer 10

Slasher Mary, the suffragette who vandalised a painting in the national gallery in 1913

Question 11

Lloyd George

Answer 11

Leading political who was targeted by suffragettes

Question 12

Cat and mouse act

Answer 12

A law passed allowing hunger striking suffragists to be released from prison to avoid force feeding them

Question 13

White feather

Answer 13

Suffragettes handed these out to men as a stumbling of cowardice in WWI

Question 14

What was life like for women in the 19th century

Answer 14

• had to act a certain way eg.
  
  • dress modestly
  • stay at home and look after kids
  • had to marry young

Question 15

What were problems women faced in 1900s

Answer 15

-They weren’t allowed to divorce even if their husband was cruel
-weren’t allowed to earn money independently
-weren’t allowed to vote or have a job

Question 16

Date
NUWSS(suffragists) were founded to campaign for vote

Answer 16

1897

Question 17

What methods did suffragettes use?

Answer 17

-believed in deeds not words
-physical action
-eg. Chained themselves to Buckingham palace

Question 18

What methods did suffragists use?

Answer 18

-peaceful protestors
-wrote letters, made posters, petitions, made speeches
-soon, people realised that peaceful protesting wasn’t working so they came up with the suffragettes

Question 19

Who was Emily Davison

Answer 19

-suffragette who died in a protest at the derby, she was run over by a horse

Question 20

Evidence that Emily davisons death was a accident

Answer 20

• close friend of hers declared that she would’ve written a farewell letter
  -an official policy officer reported stated that she had a return ticket, implying that she had the intention to live
  -there were few alibis

Question 21

Evidence that Emily Davisons death was a suicide

Answer 21

-she had made previous suicide attempts
-in a source she said ‘look in the evening paper and you will see’
-she purposefully sewed two flags in her coat