votes for women

Question 1

when did women finally gain the right to vote?

Answer 1

1918

Question 2

what does ‘WSPU” stand for?

Answer 2

Women’s Social and Political Union

Question 3

what 2 min reasons convinced the government to release the Representation of the People’s Act?

Answer 3

1. many years of campaigning by the WSPU.
2. women’s work in the war

Question 4

in 1918 when women got the vote, how old did they have to be?

Answer 4

30 years old

Question 5

what happened in 1929?

Answer 5

women were given the same voting grounds as men, at the age of 21.