The issue of female emancipation 1886-1914

Question 1

Suffragist movement

Answer 1

Dated back to the 1890s and pushed for peaceful reform

Question 2

Suffragette movement

Answer 2

Formed in 1903 and took a militant approach

Question 3

Who controlled the suffragettes

Answer 3

The Pankhursts

Question 4

Membership of the suffragists

Answer 4

100,000

Question 5

Gladstone’s stance on female franchise

Answer 5

He did not support it

He openly criticised the 1884 reform bill which was defeated

Question 6

What did the liberals do to improve women’s suffrage

Answer 6

Gave single women the vote in local government elections

Allowed women to join school boards

Question 7

Primrose league

Answer 7

A conservative organisation that supported women’s rights

Question 8

What did the liberal suffragists split over

Answer 8

Home Rule in the 1880s and split whether to stick to a non party approach

Question 9

What did the restructuring of the NSWS in 1888 do

Answer 9

It allowed groups affiliated with political parties to join

Question 10

What groups did the NWSW split into

Answer 10

Parliament Street Society
Great College Street Society
Women’s franchise league

Question 11

Why was the WSPU set up

Answer 11

Emmeline Pankhurst set it up because she was dissatisfied with the earlier campaigns

Question 12

What tactics did the suffragettes use

Answer 12

Breaking windows, including Lloyd George’s country house
Hunger strikes
Death of Emily Davison by the King’s horse

Question 13

Political action by suffragettes

Answer 13

Confronting parliament and ministers
Campaigning in by-elections
From May 1906 to June 1908

Question 14

Protests used in phase 2 by the suffragettes

Answer 14

Windows breaking
Deliberate arrests
Hunger strikes
All throughout June 1908 to January 1910

Question 15

Violent action taken in phase 3

Answer 15

Large scale window breaking 
Mass hunger strikes 
Arson attacks 
Attacks on property
Throughout Nov 1911 - Aug 1914

Question 16

Who campaigned against women’s suffrage

Answer 16

Anti-suffrage league

Included men and women

Question 17

How many members did the Anti Suffrage League have

Answer 17

By April 1912 it had over 10,000 members and 235 branches

Question 18

Who did support female suffrage

Answer 18

Only the Labour Party

Question 19

What did the ASL argue

Answer 19

Women didn’t want the vote
Women were too emotional and less rational
They should remain in the domestic sphere and men in public sphere

Question 20

Which newspaper supported the ASL

Answer 20

The Times

Question 21

Cat and Mouse Act 1913

Answer 21

Allowed the early release of prisoners who were too weakened by hunger striking that they risked death, and they were then recalled back when their health improved

Question 22

WSPU action in Ireland

Answer 22

July 1914, Dorothy Evans and Lillian Metge bombed Lisburn cathedral

Question 23

Ulster Union Council

Answer 23

An organisation which backed down on their promise to support women’s suffrage which then provoked WSPU attacks on Unionist owned buildings

Question 24

Did militancy help the cause for women’s suffrage

Answer 24

It tarnished their reputation

Historians such as Martin Pugh says, “militancy clearly damaged the cause”