The WSPU, 1903-14 Flashcards
What evidence is there that women experienced improvements to their lives in the later nineteenth century?
Wassim
What evidence is there of continuing inequality around 1900?
Wassim
When did the women’s suffrage movement start? What was its first major event?
Wassim
Which suffrage organisations existed before 1903? Give detail about each.
Joel
What evidence is there of the strength of the constitutional suffragists?
Joel
What was the focus of the constitutional suffragists’ campaign? What campaigning methods did they use?
Joel
Why did the suffragists have to rely on private members’ bills?
Joe D
When was the WSPU set up?
Joe D
Why was the Women’s Social and Political Union set up?
Joe D
Who were the leaders of the WSPU? Give details about their background and early political experience.
Max
What was significant about the membership of the WSPU?
Max
What evidence is there for and against the criticism that the WSPU was elitist?
Max
What evidence is there that the WSPU was run in an authoritarian manner?
Jayden
How has the dictatorial leadership of the Pankhursts been explained/defended by historians?
Jayden
What campaign methods did the WSPU adopt between 1903 and 1905?
Jayden
What was the trigger (in May 1905) that encouraged the WSPU to take more militant action?
Anna
What happened in October 1905?
Anna
What impact did the heckling of leading politicians have?
Anna
In what ways was Churchill targeted by the WSPU?
Imi
How did opponents use the militant action to attack the WSPU?
Imi
What reasons for militancy were put forward by the WSPU?
Imi
How far was suffragette violence ordered and directed by the Pankhursts?
Lola
How did members of the WSPU react to Emmeline Pankhursts imprisonment in April 1913?
Lola
What evidence/examples are there that the WSPU continued with peaceful campaigning?
Lola
What/when was the Conciliation Committee, and the Conciliation Bills?
Louis
What did the WSPU do during negotiations over the Conciliation Bill?
Louis
Why did the Conciliation Bills fail?
Louis
How did the WSPU react to the failure of the Conciliation Bills?
Uma
What was the attitude of Liberal Party members towards women’s suffrage in this period?
Uma
Why didn’t the Liberal government support women’s suffrage bills?
Uma
How did the Liberal government respond to WSPU militancy? Give details about measures introduced.
Joe B
What was window-sashing usually a response to? Give examples.
Joe B
What happened on Black Friday (18 November 1910)?
Joe B
How did the treatment of WSPU prisoners change?
Josh
Why did some suffragette prisoners begin to go on hunger strike?
Josh
Why did hunger striking become official WSPU policy?
Josh
Why did hunger strikes cause problems for the government?
Iyola
What was the reaction to the government’s force-feeding of suffragettes who went on hunger strike?
Iyola
What/when was the Cat and Mouse Act? Why was it introduced?
Iyola
What happened to Emily Davison?
Paula
What was the reaction to Emily Davison’s death?
Paula
What evidence is there of increasing militancy around 1912?
Paula
What splits were there in the WSPU between 1912 and 1914?
Oscar
Why did increasing militancy undermine the effectiveness of the WSPU?
Oscar
Which groups of women campaigners did Asquith meet in 1913 and 1914?
Oscar
What evidence and arguments are there that militancy hindered the cause of women’s suffrage?
Bertie
What evidence and arguments are there that militancy helped the cause of women’s suffrage?
Bertie
In what ways did the leadership of the WSPU hinder the cause of women’s suffrage?
Blair
In what ways did the leadership of the WSPU help the cause of women’s suffrage?
Blair
Why was the Liberal leadership so obstructive to women’s suffrage?
Ben
In what ways did the Liberal government hinder the cause of women’s suffrage?
Ben
