Unit 3 - The Liberals, Votes For Women & Social Reform

Question 1

What was the NUWSS?

Answer 1

The National union of women’s suffrage

Question 2

Who set up the NUWSS in 1897?

Answer 2

Millicent Fawcett who is married to Henry Fawcett (a Liberal MP)

Question 3

What is the name given to the women who peacefully campaigned for the vote?

Answer 3

Suffragists

Question 4

Who spoke out in the 1906 general election?

Answer 4

Male NUWSS members

Question 5

What does the WSPU stand for?

Answer 5

The women’s social and political in union

Question 6

Who set up the WSPU in 1903?

Answer 6

Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst with the help of her daughter Sylvia and Christabel

Question 7

What was the WSPY major belief?

Answer 7

‘Deeds not words’

Question 8

What was the name given to WSPU members?

Answer 8

Suffragettes

Question 9

What organisation was formed in 1907?

Answer 9

The women’s freedom league (WFL)

Question 10

What was the name of the Liberal prime minister who supported militant action?

Answer 10

Henry Campbell Bannerman

Question 11

When did the suffragettes host a massive stonethrowing operation?

Answer 11

1912

Question 12

When did suffragettes break hundreds of windows and 219 people were arrested?

Answer 12

1 March 1912

Question 13

When was the suffragette Derby?

Answer 13

June 1913

Question 14

What was the name of the suffragette who was killed during the 1913 suffragette Derby?

Answer 14

Emily Davison

Question 15

Name is three organisations against suffrage for women

Answer 15

Men’s league for opposing women’s suffrage
Women’s National anti-suffrage league
National League for opposing women suffrage (NLOWS)

Question 16

How did the government response to suffragette hunger strikes in prison?

Answer 16

By force-feeding them

Question 17

When was the prisoners (temporary discharge for ill health) act/’Cat and Mouse’ Act passed?

Answer 17

1913

Question 18

When the Prime Minister Asquith report that he supported women’s suffrage?

Answer 18

1917

Question 19

What happened in 1918 that gave women over the age of 30 the right to vote and become MPs?

Answer 19

Representation of people act

Question 20

When did women get the same voting rights as men meaning they could vote from the age of 21?

Answer 20

1928

Question 21

When was the liberal party elected?

Answer 21

1906

Question 22

Who found that 43% of York’s population were below the poverty line?

Answer 22

Seebohm Rowntree

Question 23

When did Charles booth publish his results that a third of London’s population were below the poverty line?

Answer 23

1902

Question 24

What percentage of recruits were unfit for service in the 1898 Boer War?

Answer 24

40%

Question 25

When was a law passed making education compulsory for children?

Answer 25

1880

Question 26

When was the school meals act introduced?

Answer 26

1906

Question 27

How many children received free school meals by 1914?

Answer 27

150,000

Question 28

When did the government introduce the school medical service?

Answer 28

1907

Question 29

When was the children’s charter introduced?

Answer 29

1908

Question 30

When was the children’s and Young Persons act?

Answer 30

1908

Question 31

When did Lloyd George introduced the People’s budget?

Answer 31

1909

Question 32

When was the old age pension act introduced?

Answer 32

1908

Question 33

How many people collected a pension in the first year?

Answer 33

650,000

Question 34

How many pensioners were there by 1914?

Answer 34

Nearly 1,000,000

Question 35

When was the labour exchange act introduced?

Answer 35

1909

Question 36

How many people had registered with the labour exchange act by1914?

Answer 36

1 million

Question 37

When was the national insurance act introduced?

Answer 37

1911

Question 38

Define suffrage

Answer 38

The right to vote