Suffragists + Suffragettes

Question 1

Who were the suffragettes?

Answer 1

A campaign for women’s rights

Question 2

When was the suffragettes founded and by whom?

Answer 2

-1903
-Emmeline Pankhurst

Question 3

What was the full name for the suffragettes?

Answer 3

Women’s Social and Political Union

Question 4

What were the suffragettes tactics?

Answer 4

-illegal an violent

Question 5

What was the suffragettes slogan?

Answer 5

-‘deeds not words’

Question 6

What was the main aim of the suffragettes?

Answer 6

-publicity (news)
-headlines

Question 7

What did the suffragettes do to support their campaign?

Answer 7

-attended political meetings and caused dispute
-smashed windows with toffee hammers
-cut slogans into golf courses
-threw firebombs and cut telephone wires
-threw pepper at the Prime Minister when he was driving through Scotland
-chained themselves to railings
-once arrested, restrained against police officers
-threw burning rags into mailboxes

Question 8

What were the suffragists tactics?

Answer 8

-peaceful and not breaking the law

Question 9

What was the full name of the suffragists?

Answer 9

National Union Of Women’s Suffrage Societies

Question 10

Why didn’t the suffragists work?

Answer 10

-people didn’t listen
-they didn’t do enough
-ignored by the government

Question 11

What did the suffragists do to support their campaign?

Answer 11

-Held meetings
-Sent letters to the government
-Marches along roads
-Sent out leaflets publicly

Question 12

What people were on the suffragists side?

Answer 12

-Some MP’s

Question 13

Who founded the suffragists?

Answer 13

Millicent Fawcet

Question 14

Why did women not get the vote?

Answer 14

-Not considered clever enough
-Not educated enough
-Viewed as men’s property
-Not well informed on the world
-Husband voted for them

Question 15

What impact did the Great War have on the suffragette movement?

Answer 15

-The campaign was stopped and all efforts put towards the war
-The women filled in men’s jobs, boosting their argument

Question 16

What jobs did women do when men were off at war?

Answer 16

-farming
-nursing
-munition factories (canaries)
-women’s land army

Question 17

What was the hunger strike?

Answer 17

When suffragettes were put in prison for illegal acts, they would refuse to eat.

Question 18

What was force-feeding?

Answer 18

In prisons, when suffragettes refused to eat, they would stick a pole down their nostrils into their stomach and feed them a sort of food.

Question 19

What was the cat and mouse technique?

Answer 19

In prisons, people felt bad for the suffragettes being force fed. So they changed it to letting them out of prison to regain weight, then bring them back in again for say a couple months or weeks. This would continue until the time was served.

Question 20

Who was Emily Davidson?

Answer 20

A suffragette that got run over by a horse in the Great Derby Race.
(for her campaign)

Question 21

Who fought for women’s rights?

Answer 21

-suffragettes
-suffragists

Question 22

Why was it important for women to get the vote?

Answer 22

-women’s rights to be equal to men’s
-to elect politicians that promised to improve their lives.
-same pay as men
-treated equally as men