Pre WW1
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| When was the suffragist movement founded? And by this time, how many other local branches were there? | show 🗑
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| Who founded the suffragist movement? | show 🗑
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| Who suggested giving votes to women in 1867? | show 🗑
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| show | 73 MPs supported him
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| show | A large number of local women's suffrage societies were created
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| show | The campaign had gained the support of working class women as well as middle class women
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| show | Eva-Gore Booth collected the signatures of 67,000 textile workers in Northern England for a petition to parliament.
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| show | 1900.
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| show | Many back-bench Liberal MPs supported the idea, however many leader opposed because they feared their rival party (Conservative) would gain more votes as it was mainly better off women campaigning. Many Conservative leaders supported as they wanted cont..
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| But what else was going on? | show 🗑
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| Who was womens suffrage left up to and what would they have to do? | show 🗑
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| What was wrong with these bills? | show 🗑
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| What happened in the years up to 1900? | show 🗑
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| Who founded the Suffragette movement and in what year? | show 🗑
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| show | Women's Social & Political Union
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| In which newspaper did the Suffragettes soon make the headlines? | show 🗑
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| show | The Liberal Prime Minister Asquith who was heavily against female suffrage.
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| In what year did the suffragette movement become more radical/vocal and why did this happen? | show 🗑
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| show | 1) The suffragette Edith New started making speeches in Downing Street & to stop the police from moving her on she chained herself to railings. 2) In October, Mrs Pankhurst with her two daughters Christabel & General Flora Drummond were sent to prison
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| show | for enciting a crowd to 'rush' the house of commons. 3) During the same year, some suffragettes threw stones through the window of 10 Downing Street.
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| show | That it was important to her and it made the news - this was the suffragettes aim.
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| What was the next stage and in what year? | show 🗑
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| show | It won all party support.
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| What did both movements do to support the bill? | show 🗑
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| show | It got a majority of 167 - the biggest ever!
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| Then, what happened? | show 🗑
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| What did he then announce? | show 🗑
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| show | To increase their violence - they smashed windows, set fire to post boxes, bombed churches, etc.
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| show | More and more suffragettes were sent to prison.
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| show | to lead a deputation to see the Prime Minister to persuade him to change his mind. They also decided to back the labour at the next election as they were the only party fully committed to female suffrage. They organised a peaceful pilgramige from London
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| show | to Carlisle and offered free membership to working women.
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| show | went on hunger strike, gov. responded to this by force feeding protesters, suffragettes made most of this by making posters objecting it, but posters were hardly necessary - force feeding was brutal and won lots of sympathy from the public.
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| show | They introduced the The Cat & Mouse Act in 1913. This allowed hunger strikers to leave prison for a while, recover, and then go back.
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| show | The death of Emily Wilding Davison - the biggest publicised protest of them all. This happened on 5th June 1913.
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| show | It was at the Epsom Derby, as the horse rounded Tattenham Corner, Emily Davison (who had been in prison for the cause nine times previously) threw herself in front of the horse and her skull was fatally fractured.
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