Women's Suffrage

Question 1

Arguments FOR women’s suffrage (4)

Answer 1

~ Women equal before God
~ Women can vote in local elections
~ Women pay taxes
~ Other reforms have taken place (Married Women Property Act/women in medical professions)

Question 2

Arguments AGAINST women’s suffrage (5)

Answer 2

~ Women belong in the home, politics will ruin their caring nature
~ Women who don’t want the vote won’t use it
~ Don’t fight in wars
~ Too ignorant to use vote properly
~ If women are given the vote, gentle intelligent women will not stand up it will be the violent suffragettes. Parliament will be ruined

Question 3

How did WW1 help women win the vote?

Answer 3

gave women the opportunity to take on traditionally male jobs - proved themselves to be mentally and physically capable of being in complex fields and high-pressure environments. 1914 - both groups suspended their campaigns to help with the war effort

Question 4

What law gave women over 30 the vote? When was it passed and when was it extended to all women over 21?

Answer 4

1918 - Representation of the People Act

1928 - extended to all women over 21

Question 5

When were women’s rights campaigns prominent in society? Explain

Answer 5

19th century (NUWSS and WPSU) also campaigned for the right to divorce, education and respected jobs (doctor, MP etc.)

Question 6

What were the Suffragette’s methods?

Answer 6

violent protests: heckled politicians, chained themselves to railings, went on hunger strike, threw bombs and set fire to buildings.

Question 7

Who was Emily Davison?

Answer 7

A suffragette who threw herself in front of the King’s horse during the Derby of 1913.

Question 8

What were the suffragist’s methods?

Answer 8

democratic methods: petitions, speeches, peaceful protests. Built-up supporters in parliament

Question 9

What did the suffragists fail to do?

Answer 9

get a law passed

Question 10

who led the Suffragettes?

Answer 10

Emmeline Pankhurst

Question 11

who led the suffragists?

Answer 11

Millicent Fawcett

Question 12

when was the NUWSS (National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies) formed?

Answer 12

1897

Question 13

when was the WSPU (Women’s Social and Political Union) formed?

Answer 13

1903

Question 14

What were the suffragists mainly made up of?

Answer 14

middle-class women

Question 15

what were the suffragettes made up of?

Answer 15

middle-class and working-class women