Women's suffrage

Question 1

2 main political female suffrage groups

Answer 1

NUWSS- National Union for Women’s Suffrage (Suffragists) → 1897 Millicent Fawcett
WSPU- Women’s Social and Political Union (Suffragettes) → 1903 Emmeline Pankhurst

Question 2

Slogan of suffragettes

Answer 2

Deeds not words

Question 3

When was the newspaper Votes for Women first published?

Answer 3

1907

Question 4

When was the first hunger strike

Answer 4

1909

Question 5

When was the Cat and Mouse Act?

Answer 5

1913

Question 6

Example of how parliament was unwilling to discuss women’s suffrage

Answer 6

1905- mocking a bill by wasting time over a bill for lights on carts and then not having enough time for the suffrage bill

Question 7

Why were liberals afraid of female suffrage

Answer 7

Liberals feared that if they gave votes to women on the same terms as men at the time then the women with property would be more likely to vote conservative as they would be upper class.

Question 8

What was the view of the conservative party on women’s suffrage?

Answer 8

• Largely antagonistic
• Some attempted to pass private members bills
• Bonar-law voted against a suffrage bill in 1913

Question 9

What was the Lords’ view on female suffrage before 1911 + lord that was in opposition and why

Answer 9

House of Lords was largely conservative. A main exaple would be Lord Curzon who strongly opposed women’s suffrage and had the misogynistic belief that female millitancy stemmed from mental instability of women and hysteria

Question 10

WSPU millitancy

Answer 10

• Churchill was horsewhipped
• Asquith had his dorbell rung constantly
• Slashed paintings in the national gallery
• 1913 David Lloyd-George’s home was attacked with arson

Question 11

Bills that were posed in parliament for female suffrage [1906-1914]

Answer 11

• 1908- Stanger’s Bill → vote for propertied women, read 2x
• 1911 Concillation Bill →