The suffragettes - TWSM

Question 1

Analysis

Answer 1

Suffragettes publicity was all good publicity. Many of the public lost sympathy with their cause as they felt they had gone to with their militant tactics

Question 2

Analysis plus

Answer 2

This is furfer emphasised by the concilisaion bill in parliment in 1911. a majority of mps backed womens suffrage. However by the time of the second reading the wild period had started and mps no longor voted in favour of womens suffrage.

Question 3

Evaluation

Answer 3

In evaluation although the suffragettes did play a significant role in gaining women the vote and gathered a lot of publicity for the cause it could be argued that there the suffragists won a greater amount of support for the cause, this is emphasized by the fact that that the suffragists had 10 times the amount of members than the suffragettes had.

Question 4

Knowlege Points

Answer 4

Emiline Pankhurst founded the suffragettes to help women gain the vote. This group used the motto “Deeds not words” as they found actions more noticeable than letters.

Question 5

Knowlege

Answer 5

Mary Richardson a member of this group walked into the National Gallery on March 1914 and slashed a painting destroying it in hopes of gaining attention

Question 6

Knowlege

Answer 6

If these protesters were sent to prison such as Marion Wallace Dunlop they went on hunger strike to prove just how serious these women are.