Sugfargets Flashcards
Restrictions women faced in 19th and 20th century
Women couldn’t vote
Didn’t get education
Poor women expected to go work for family
Rich women stays at home as a status symbol
Who was the creator of WSPU
Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter christabel Pankhurst
Who was Emily Davidson
Gave up teaching to pursue campaign for suffragettes and thought they should be militant
What did Emily Davidson do in 1913 derby day
Dashes under guard rails onto track and collides with horse and dies 2 days later seen as a martyr
WSPU tactics
disrupted public meetings
They smashed windows,
set post boxes and buildings on fire and
staged protests.
When they were arrested or imprisoned, they went on hunger strikes.
Why did women eventually get the vote
Because of there help in the war effort
WSPU stands for
Women’s social and political union
Governments response to WSPU methods
Force feeding in jail and cat and mouse act
Motto
Deeds not words