Unit 1. Chapter 3 - The Home Front

Question 1

How many people attended the anti war demonstration in Glasgow
August 1914v

Answer 1

5,000

Question 2

What happened to the recruitment figures in 1915?

Answer 2

They started to fall

Question 3

What was the 1916 military service acts ?

Answer 3

When unmarried men went to war then it changed to married men

Question 4

What were the expletives on not going to the war?

Answer 4

Illness
Work of national importance
Hardship to family
COs

Question 5

What percentage of the COs members in Scotland were from the ILP?

Answer 5

70%

Question 6

What are the suffragists

Answer 6

A campaign that helped women gain the vote.

They were the peaceful group

Question 7

Who were the suffragettes

Answer 7

Another group to help women gain the vote

These were the militant group

Question 8

What were the suffragettes offered at the start of the war?

Answer 8

£2,000 grant to suspend campaign

Question 9

What did women do when conscription was introduced

Answer 9

They soon started to come to do the men’s jobs

Question 10

How many Scottish women are in the munitions

Answer 10

30,000

Question 11

Who is Maurice Chrisholm?

Answer 11

A nurse at the first aid posts in Belgium - order of Leopold

Question 12

Who was Elsie ingles?

Answer 12

Scottish women’s hospital committee.
Got doctors to war zones
Set up 4 Scottish women’s hospitals.

Question 13

What was the Rent Strikes of 1915?

Answer 13

Women being bullied into paying high rents and if they didn’t they would get evicted.

Question 14

What were the tactics used in the rent strikes?

Answer 14

Blocking of the stairs

Flour bombs and trousers

Question 15

When was the rent restriction act,

Answer 15

Froze rents at 1914 level

Question 16

What was the Representation of People’s Act 1918?

Answer 16

When women over 30 gained the vote

40% of the electorate vote.

Question 17

What was wrong with the Representation of People’s Act?

Answer 17

Many of the women excluded.

Question 18

What happened to the women after the men came back after war?

Answer 18

They lost their jobs and they were given back to men

Question 19

What percentage of women were back in domestic services after the war?

Answer 19

25%

Question 20

What is DORA

Answer 20

Defence of the Realm Act

It gave emergency powers for security of the country

Question 21

When did DORA come into power

Answer 21

8th of August 1914

Question 22

What did the government do with DORA?

Answer 22

Censorship- newspapers and soldiers letters 
Took control over munitions-1915
And over coal -1917 
Rationing introduced. 1917
Opening of pubs and closing of pubs

Question 23

What percentage of the population opposed the war?

Answer 23

0.5%