Term 3 - How did women get the vote?

Question 1

What happened in 1897?

Answer 1

Millicent Fawcett linked smaller organisations into the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Society, known as Suffragists.

Question 2

What is the NUWSS?

Answer 2

National Union of Women’s Suffrage Society

Question 3

What did members of the NUWSS believe?

Answer 3

They believed that logical arguments was the way to persuade people to support votes for women.

Question 4

What did the members of the NUWSS do?

Answer 4

They held meetings and marches, they published pamphlets and spoke to MPs.

Question 5

How many branches of the NUWSS were there by 1914?

Answer 5

more than 400 branches

Question 6

How many members were there in the NUWSS by 1914?

Answer 6

Over 100,000 some of whom were men.

Question 7

What did Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughers Christabel and Sylvia do?

Answer 7

They founded the Women’s Social and Political Union.

Question 8

What is the WSPU?

Answer 8

Women’s Social and Political Union.

Question 9

What is the similarities between the NUWSS and the WSPU?

Answer 9

They both had the aim to allow women to vote.

Question 10

What did the WSPU do?

Answer 10

They organised marches, meets, opened shops.

Chained them selves to railings, refused to pay taxes, hid in the Houses of Parliament to disrupt debates

Question 11

What was sold in the WSPU shops?

Answer 11

WSPU mugs, brooches, scarves, pamphlets urging votes for women.

Question 12

What happened in 1906?

Answer 12

Women were banned from public meetings and refused to meet women’s suffrage groups.

Question 13

What did women do in result to being banned from public meeting?

Answer 13

They chained themselves to railings, refused to pay taxes and even hid in the House of Parliament so they could disrupt debates.

Question 14

What happened in 1910?

Answer 14

The Conciliation Bill, aimed at giving the vote to all men and a small number of women, failed to get Parliaments approval.

Question 15

What did the Suffragettes do in reaction to the Conciliation Bill not being approved?

Answer 15

They stepped up their activities. They began a more serious attack on property. They smashed windows of shops, offices and government buildings. They destroyed the contents of post boxes, used acid to burn their messages into the grass of golf courses. They burn down houses of those who didn’t support them and slashed paintings in public galleries.

Question 16

What did the government to do to stop suffragettes?

Answer 16

They arrested many suffragettes for illegal actions and sent them to prison.

Question 17

What happened in 1909?

Answer 17

Marion Wallace Dunlop, an imprisoned suffragette, went on hunger strike.

Question 18

What did the government to to force the suffragettes to eat?

Answer 18

They forced food down their throats by holding them down and forcing a tube down their noses or mouths and into their stomachs.

Question 19

How did the governments action of forcing food down the suffragettes impact them?

Answer 19

It was used against them in the General election in 1910.

Question 20

What is an Anti-Suffrage society?

Answer 20

They were formed up and down the country, some were only men and some were only women. They are trying to stop the Suffragettes. They used suffragette tactics to persuade the public and parliament that women should not vote.

Question 21

What happened to the anti-suffrage societies in 1910?

Answer 21

They merged into the National League for opposing Women Suffrage.

Question 22

What is a suffragette?

Answer 22

People who were determined to win the right to vote for women by any means. Their militant campaigning sometimes included unlawful and violent acts which attracted much publicity.

Question 23

Who are the suffregists?

Answer 23

They were people that women that campaigned for women’s right to vote peacefully.