Term 3 - How did women get the vote? Flashcards
What happened in 1897?
Millicent Fawcett linked smaller organisations into the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Society, known as Suffragists.
What is the NUWSS?
National Union of Women’s Suffrage Society
What did members of the NUWSS believe?
They believed that logical arguments was the way to persuade people to support votes for women.
What did the members of the NUWSS do?
They held meetings and marches, they published pamphlets and spoke to MPs.
How many branches of the NUWSS were there by 1914?
more than 400 branches
How many members were there in the NUWSS by 1914?
Over 100,000 some of whom were men.
What did Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughers Christabel and Sylvia do?
They founded the Women’s Social and Political Union.
What is the WSPU?
Women’s Social and Political Union.
What is the similarities between the NUWSS and the WSPU?
They both had the aim to allow women to vote.
What did the WSPU do?
They organised marches, meets, opened shops.
Chained them selves to railings, refused to pay taxes, hid in the Houses of Parliament to disrupt debates
What was sold in the WSPU shops?
WSPU mugs, brooches, scarves, pamphlets urging votes for women.
What happened in 1906?
Women were banned from public meetings and refused to meet women’s suffrage groups.
What did women do in result to being banned from public meeting?
They chained themselves to railings, refused to pay taxes and even hid in the House of Parliament so they could disrupt debates.
What happened in 1910?
The Conciliation Bill, aimed at giving the vote to all men and a small number of women, failed to get Parliaments approval.
What did the Suffragettes do in reaction to the Conciliation Bill not being approved?
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.
What did the government to do to stop suffragettes?
They arrested many suffragettes for illegal actions and sent them to prison.
What happened in 1909?
Marion Wallace Dunlop, an imprisoned suffragette, went on hunger strike.
What did the government to to force the suffragettes to eat?
They forced food down their throats by holding them down and forcing a tube down their noses or mouths and into their stomachs.
How did the governments action of forcing food down the suffragettes impact them?
It was used against them in the General election in 1910.
What is an Anti-Suffrage society?
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.
What happened to the anti-suffrage societies in 1910?
They merged into the National League for opposing Women Suffrage.
What is a suffragette?
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.
Who are the suffregists?
They were people that women that campaigned for women’s right to vote peacefully.
