the 20th century Flashcards
social factors for the rights for women
women wanted rights against a lot of abandoned issues- votes, education, medical training, child prostitution and rights for married womens autonomy
- there was ni mass support such as for corn laws or chartism
- many scotiies including those of women such as queen vic and florence thought women had a dif sphere of importance that was for mothering and aid not voting rights
- there were heavy steroetypes of women as carers, mothers and too hysterical for votes
- women were the populations majority and many worried theyd become the minority
violence/ war as a factor for womens rights
- women couldnt fight and so many felt that made them lesser
- they used vioelent tactis such as attackng parliment, letter boxes, windows, chaining themslves to gates and greens of golf courses
- ww1 proved helpful as they could carry out skilled factory work and beat the claim they didnt help the economy and country thrive
role of individual for womens rights
christabel pankhurst- disrupted party meetings, spat at polices, got publicity from her stint in prison
emily davidson- threw herself into the kings horse HUGE NEWS and died, hindered them as it showed female hysteria
millicent fawcett- lead the womens suffigists
gov as a factor for womens rights
- they tried to use bi elections to get power but often isolated the mp whom backed them and lost seats
- the two parties both felt women may outnumber them and back the other party
- gov feared the actions of the sffregettes militcancy and felt persuaded by their case
- ag the end of both wars there was a sympathetic pro women gov who aided them
long term effects of womens sufferege
- half a century later women get the equal pay act and EVERYONE over eighteen could vote
- theres been a long journey about beating stigmas about the place of women in a household
- the movement that called for not just votes but an overriding sense of regonintion for women as more than aids to men largely helped this happen
- divorce act, abortion act and employèrent protection acts happened in the half century later
- thatcher and female MPs
key actions of the sufferegttes
- suffregists used peaceful protests, pamplets, petitions and speaking with gov
- they did hunger strikes when imprisoned
- violent acts of arson and destruction such as on the chancellors house
- emily davdson and the kings horse
- bi elections
short term effects of womens suffrdge
- suffriegettes kept the prospect of womens votes in foreground of politics by their consnat action
- they worked hard in the war and it was fear of them restartng that helped
- initial laws were only for older upper class women in 1918
economic causes of the miners strike
- price of coal was going down as germany was mass paying their 6.6b reparations in coal
- countries trade were advancing and selling better goods
- coal factory owners wanted to increase hours but lessen wages to compensate
gov as a factor of the general strike
- the gov were wary of the changes in wages so subsided the miners wages for a year- they funded it- by may 1926 the govs fund had run out
main events of the general strike
- gov took volanteers to act in place of necessary workers and used the 1920 emergency powers act to negatively portray the strike as a rebellion
- gov publissed their gazette to spread propaganda of the strikers and tell people to go back
- TUC slowly called out millions of unions
- things became much more violent and ther was a divide in ideas of what was to happen, with the TUC leaders losing control they ordered a return to work nine days later
significance of the genral strike
- the TUC had split idealists and had failed
- miners had to go back and many known troublemakers were blacklisted making them even poorer
- gov was prepared and had thounsadns of successful volanteers
- inspired actions in the 70s which were largely succeswful, but by thatchers gov the miner strikes were in trouble as they were long and resulted in defeat and closure of mines
role of the indivual in strikes
- arthu stargill was a militant head of the miner strikes and did not want any mines destroyed at all- hestriked with miners for years and resulted in defeat
thatcher- atthesis to stargill she used the failed miners to halt trade unions
economic factors for minority rights/ immigration
many gov run areas like the NHS needed workers and so promised jobs to those who came
they filled mainly lower unskilled jobs that brits didnt want to partake in
many migrants helped brits economy, send their new w\ges home to their porrer countries and then returned home so a win win
for many it did prove to be a land of prosperity as restaurants and asian business became very successful
Many also had very poor living conditions in England and became very upset
social factor for immgiration
britain needed to be rebuilt post ww2
anyone in the commonwealth was now abrittish citizen and could claim a place in engalnd
migrants struggled with housing
brits exploited them and working class comitinities fought wth new poor migrants
war/ chance as a factor for immigration
after ww2 the brits needed people to fill jobs and repair the economy
