Suffragists + Suffragettes * Flashcards
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Who were the suffragettes?
A campaign for women’s rights
When was the suffragettes founded and by whom?
-1903
-Emmeline Pankhurst
What was the full name for the suffragettes?
Women’s Social and Political Union
What were the suffragettes tactics?
-illegal an violent
What was the suffragettes slogan?
-‘deeds not words’
What was the main aim of the suffragettes?
-publicity (news)
-headlines
What did the suffragettes do to support their campaign?
-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
What were the suffragists tactics?
-peaceful and not breaking the law
What was the full name of the suffragists?
National Union Of Women’s Suffrage Societies
Why didn’t the suffragists work?
-people didn’t listen
-they didn’t do enough
-ignored by the government
What did the suffragists do to support their campaign?
-Held meetings
-Sent letters to the government
-Marches along roads
-Sent out leaflets publicly
What people were on the suffragists side?
-Some MP’s
Who founded the suffragists?
Millicent Fawcet
Why did women not get the vote?
-Not considered clever enough
-Not educated enough
-Viewed as men’s property
-Not well informed on the world
-Husband voted for them
What impact did the Great War have on the suffragette movement?
-The campaign was stopped and all efforts put towards the war
-The women filled in men’s jobs, boosting their argument
What jobs did women do when men were off at war?
-farming
-nursing
-munition factories (canaries)
-women’s land army
What was the hunger strike?
When suffragettes were put in prison for illegal acts, they would refuse to eat.
What was force-feeding?
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.
What was the cat and mouse technique?
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.
Who was Emily Davidson?
A suffragette that got run over by a horse in the Great Derby Race.
(for her campaign)
Who fought for women’s rights?
-suffragettes
-suffragists
Why was it important for women to get the vote?
-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
