The WSPU, 1903-14

Question 1

What evidence is there that women experienced improvements to their lives in the later nineteenth century?

Answer 1

Wassim

Question 2

What evidence is there of continuing inequality around 1900?

Answer 2

Wassim

Question 3

When did the women’s suffrage movement start? What was its first major event?

Answer 3

Wassim

Question 4

Which suffrage organisations existed before 1903? Give detail about each.

Answer 4

Joel

Question 5

What evidence is there of the strength of the constitutional suffragists?

Answer 5

Joel

Question 6

What was the focus of the constitutional suffragists’ campaign? What campaigning methods did they use?

Answer 6

Joel

Question 7

Why did the suffragists have to rely on private members’ bills?

Answer 7

Joe D

Question 8

When was the WSPU set up?

Answer 8

Joe D

Question 9

Why was the Women’s Social and Political Union set up?

Answer 9

Joe D

Question 10

Who were the leaders of the WSPU? Give details about their background and early political experience.

Answer 10

Max

Question 11

What was significant about the membership of the WSPU?

Answer 11

Max

Question 12

What evidence is there for and against the criticism that the WSPU was elitist?

Answer 12

Max

Question 13

What evidence is there that the WSPU was run in an authoritarian manner?

Answer 13

Jayden

Question 14

How has the dictatorial leadership of the Pankhursts been explained/defended by historians?

Answer 14

Jayden

Question 15

What campaign methods did the WSPU adopt between 1903 and 1905?

Answer 15

Jayden

Question 16

What was the trigger (in May 1905) that encouraged the WSPU to take more militant action?

Answer 16

Anna

Question 17

What happened in October 1905?

Answer 17

Anna

Question 18

What impact did the heckling of leading politicians have?

Answer 18

Anna

Question 19

In what ways was Churchill targeted by the WSPU?

Answer 19

Imi

Question 20

How did opponents use the militant action to attack the WSPU?

Answer 20

Imi

Question 21

What reasons for militancy were put forward by the WSPU?

Answer 21

Imi

Question 22

How far was suffragette violence ordered and directed by the Pankhursts?

Answer 22

Lola

Question 23

How did members of the WSPU react to Emmeline Pankhursts imprisonment in April 1913?

Answer 23

Lola

Question 24

What evidence/examples are there that the WSPU continued with peaceful campaigning?

Answer 24

Lola

Question 25

What/when was the Conciliation Committee, and the Conciliation Bills?

Answer 25

Louis

Question 26

What did the WSPU do during negotiations over the Conciliation Bill?

Answer 26

Louis

Question 27

Why did the Conciliation Bills fail?

Answer 27

Louis

Question 28

How did the WSPU react to the failure of the Conciliation Bills?

Answer 28

Uma

Question 29

What was the attitude of Liberal Party members towards women’s suffrage in this period?

Answer 29

Uma

Question 30

Why didn’t the Liberal government support women’s suffrage bills?

Answer 30

Uma

Question 31

How did the Liberal government respond to WSPU militancy? Give details about measures introduced.

Answer 31

Joe B

Question 32

What was window-sashing usually a response to? Give examples.

Answer 32

Joe B

Question 33

What happened on Black Friday (18 November 1910)?

Answer 33

Joe B

Question 34

How did the treatment of WSPU prisoners change?

Answer 34

Josh

Question 35

Why did some suffragette prisoners begin to go on hunger strike?

Answer 35

Josh

Question 36

Why did hunger striking become official WSPU policy?

Answer 36

Josh

Question 37

Why did hunger strikes cause problems for the government?

Answer 37

Iyola

Question 38

What was the reaction to the government’s force-feeding of suffragettes who went on hunger strike?

Answer 38

Iyola

Question 39

What/when was the Cat and Mouse Act? Why was it introduced?

Answer 39

Iyola

Question 40

What happened to Emily Davison?

Answer 40

Paula

Question 41

What was the reaction to Emily Davison’s death?

Answer 41

Paula

Question 42

What evidence is there of increasing militancy around 1912?

Answer 42

Paula

Question 43

What splits were there in the WSPU between 1912 and 1914?

Answer 43

Oscar

Question 44

Why did increasing militancy undermine the effectiveness of the WSPU?

Answer 44

Oscar

Question 45

Which groups of women campaigners did Asquith meet in 1913 and 1914?

Answer 45

Oscar

Question 46

What evidence and arguments are there that militancy hindered the cause of women’s suffrage?

Answer 46

Bertie

Question 47

What evidence and arguments are there that militancy helped the cause of women’s suffrage?

Answer 47

Bertie

Question 48

In what ways did the leadership of the WSPU hinder the cause of women’s suffrage?

Answer 48

Blair

Question 49

In what ways did the leadership of the WSPU help the cause of women’s suffrage?

Answer 49

Blair

Question 50

Why was the Liberal leadership so obstructive to women’s suffrage?

Answer 50

Ben

Question 51

In what ways did the Liberal government hinder the cause of women’s suffrage?

Answer 51

Ben