Women's Suffrage

Question 1

Give an argument that people would say against the Women’s Suffrage.

Answer 1

Women are irrational.
Man was created to rule over women.
Women are weaker than men.
Only men should be trusted to run the country.
Women are cannibals.

Question 2

When was the NUWSS (the suffragists) founded?

Answer 2

1897

Question 3

When were the suffragettes (WSPU) formed?

Answer 3

1903

Question 4

Who formed the NUWSS?

Answer 4

Millicent Fawcett.

Question 5

Who formed the WSPU?

Answer 5

Emmeline Pankhurst.

Question 6

What does NUWSS stand for?

Answer 6

National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies

Question 7

What does WSPU stand for?

Answer 7

Women’s Social and Political Union.

Question 8

When was Emily Davison trampled by a horse?

Answer 8

June 1913.

Question 9

Define martyr.

Answer 9

Someone who dies for a political or social cause.

Question 10

How many men volunteered in the first week of September 1914.

Answer 10

200,000.

Question 11

Who was head of the FANY?

Answer 11

Evelyn Hatherfield.

Question 12

What was the WPS?

Answer 12

Women’s Police Service.

Question 13

What was the FANY?

Answer 13

First Aid Nursing

Yeomanry

Question 14

How many shells were made by 1917?

Answer 14

76 million.

Question 15

When did the People Act happen?

Answer 15

1918. It allowed all women over the age of 30 to vote.

Question 16

When were all women over 21 given the vote?

Answer 16

1928.

Question 17

When was the cat and mouse act passed?

Answer 17

1913.