Women

Question 1

1st Reform act - __% of men get the vote

Answer 1

1832, 15

Question 2

women could divorce men if they could prove battery or adultery - still lots of pressure not to have a divorce

Answer 2

1857

Question 3

___ women petitioned the gov. for the right to vote - ignored

Answer 3

1866, 1500

Question 4

Married women could keep their own property and wages

Answer 4

1870

Question 5

women were no longer possessions of men

Answer 5

1884

Question 6

3rd reform act - ___% of men could vote

Answer 6

1884, 40

Question 7

The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies was formed by Millicent Fawcett - NUWSS, Suffragists

Answer 7

1897

Question 8

Women’s Social and Political Union formed by Emmeline Pankhurst, WSPU, Suffragettes

Answer 8

1903

Question 9

Liberal Gov elected (who theoretically sympathise with women’s suffrage but __ is against them and if women did have vote, all the wealthy women would vote ___)

Answer 9

1906, Asquith, Conservative

Question 10

NUWSS mud march to London in ___. ___ women join in

Answer 10

1907, February, 3000

Question 11

__ becomes Liberal PM and is against women’s suffrage and tells the movement to prove they have popular support… they do… he does nothing.
___ have had enough and become more militant:___ and _____

Answer 11

1908, Asquith, WSPU, smash windows, chain themselves to railings

Question 12

WSPU and NUWSS split- NUWSS fear WSPU making gov hostile to women’s suffrage

Answer 12

1908

Question 13

WSPU start to use hunger strike in prison- 1st forced feeding

Answer 13

1909

Question 14

1st conciliation bill - only 1 million women would get the vote. Asquith agrees to write a women’s suffrage bill but then drags his heels so women protest and are ABUSED by the police __ women dying. This day was called…

Answer 14

1910, 2, Black Friday

Question 15

2nd conciliation bill - would give women the vote. Passes with a majority of ___ and then is dropped in favour of…

Answer 15

1911, 167, Male universal suffrage

Question 16

3rd conciliation bill- __ MPs vote against it to focus politics onto the ____

Answer 16

1912, Irish, Irish question

Question 17

2nd escalation of violence from WSPU- more window smashing and mass ___ introduced by Gov in response to hunger strikes

Answer 17

1912, force feeding

Question 18

Violence escalates- further bombs used and on ___ explosion of Lloyd Georges house
The ____ Act is introduced by the Gov
___ dies at the Derby- martyr?

Answer 18

1913, 19th February, Cat and Mouse, Emily Davison

Question 19

WW1- campaigns suspended but NUWSS keeps going

women work for the war effort

Answer 19

1914, NUWSS

Question 20

Universal suffrage- all men over __, all women over __ because of their work in the war effort, also gov. had to amend the act for soldiers so popped women in too

Answer 20

1918, 21, 30

Question 21

Universal suffrage- all men and women over __ because ___ continues to campaign for equal rights without violence

Answer 21

21, NUWSS