Womens Suffrage Essay

Question 1

intro

Answer 1

-woman little no rights before vote, anything owned belong to husbands once married
-suffragettes small society made up those who felt suffragist not getting anywhere
-More violent, aggressive than suffragists
-factors: suffragettes, suffragists, war effort, and changing attitudes
-suffragette campaign very important in getting vote

Question 2

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Answer 2

Factor: suffragettes (Women’s Social and Political Union)
-KU: had extreme methods e.g. blowing up post boxes, chain railings, or smashing windows
-A: Publics attention, drawn, showed persistence in cause
-A+: public attention, bad attention, dislike by many – seen disruptive, rude, and violent
-KU: when imprisoned, hunger strikes – show dedication to cause and make statement
-A: lots media attention – government felt threatened, force, feeding, made government look bad in press

Question 3

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Answer 3

Factor: suffragists
-KU:legal protests, parades e.g. 13th of June 1908 march London, 10,000 women
-A: no damaging disruption (unlike Suffragettes) not against law more women took part
-KU: methods = pamphlets, letters, newspapers
-A: preferred by Govt didn’t disturb/harm public and civilians
-A+: easy to ignore = slow progress, little results

Question 4

Para 3

Answer 4

factor: war effort
-KU: Stopped protests helped war effort through taking over basic jobs, e.g. bus, drivers police, and train conductors
-A: capable of same work as men meaning should be re-thought about intellect level/vote rights
-A+: Many suffragettes felt betrayed, efforts for nothing, tension/disagreements within
-KU: Woman trained lower level than men purposely so when men return take back job

Question 5

Para 4

Answer 5

factor: changing attitudes
-KU: Education act of 1880 = children 5 to 10 must go school
-A: now had education, previously used against for reason no vote = no longer applicable
-KU: 1902 education act opened number of girls, grammar schools
-A: same level education as men
-KU: 1878 London UNI opened up degrees equally
-A: society, moving towards more equal education and jobs
-A+: some unique, like Cambridge, allowed to study not allowed to graduate = education worth nothing

Question 6

Conclusion

Answer 6

suffragettes – most important – forced government quick decision decisions/responses
Suffragists – important – first pressure group inspired many – not as important as suffragette – many members left suffragists for suffragettes
War effort – important – improved wages – not as important as suffragette – efforts forgotten quickly after war
changing attitude – important – rather than thought of as incompetent/incapable, being educated – not as important as suffragette – still limited and long way to go