Womens Sufferagw

Question 1

Arguments for womens rights for voting

Answer 1

Pay taxes
Other countrys let them vote like new zealand
Uneducated working men can vote
They can vote in local elections why not national?

Question 2

Arguments against women voting

Answer 2

Women belong in the home doing chores and looking after the children
Women don’t fight for thr country
Their husband can vote for them
They are less in the body and the mind

Question 3

Protesters

Answer 3

By 1900 over 50,000 suffragists
But by 1905 gotten no where so emmeline pankurst and her daughters some founded the suffregtes and used violent tactics

Question 4

Who founded the suffregtes

Answer 4

Emmeline pankhurst and her daughters christebel and sylvia

Question 5

Tactis used by the suffragestes

Answer 5

Disrupted political meetings
Pelted eggs and flours at politicians
Smashed parliament with stones
Set fire to railway stations and churches’
Attacked mp’s
Refused to pay fines
Went on hunger strike in prison so were in the front page but also were force fed

Question 6

The war

Answer 6

During the war women became bus drivers mechanics police officers worked in munitions factorys

Question 7

How they got the vote

Answer 7

After helping in the war effort lots thought women deserved the vote and in 1918 women over 30 were allowed to vote