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suffragists/gettes Test

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What exactly happened to her?
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Who founded the Suffragette movement and in what year?
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What was the result of this violence?
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What happened in the years up to 1900?
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What was wrong with these bills?
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What was the next stage and in what year?
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What were the suffragists responses?
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What had happened by 1902?
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Then, what happened and on what date?
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What did he then announce?
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Due to this response, what happened?
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What did both movements do to support the bill?
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When was the suffragist movement founded? And by this time, how many other local branches were there?
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What happened in 1901-2?
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What was the suffragette response?
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Who suggested giving votes to women in 1867?
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What majority did the bill get and why was this significant?
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And what was the response to this?
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What did a women getting arrested for her cause show?
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3 things done by suffragettes during this time:
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The campaign had gained the support of working class women as well as middle class women
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That it was important to her and it made the news - this was the suffragettes aim.
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73 MPs supported him
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The suffragettes suspended all militant action whilst the suffragists held 4,000 meetings (30 meetings per day).
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1897 & 500 other local branches.
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That he was instead going to introduce votes for all men, and an extra clause for women's votes could be added on if MPs wanted to do so.
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They were never allowed the time to go through.
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A large number of local women's suffrage societies were created
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To increase their violence - they smashed windows, set fire to post boxes, bombed churches, etc.
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More and more suffragettes were sent to prison.
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The government promised a Conciliation Bill and this was in 1911.
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Eva-Gore Booth collected the signatures of 67,000 textile workers in Northern England for a petition to parliament.
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The death of Emily Wilding Davison - the biggest publicised protest of them all. This happened on 5th June 1913.
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the MP John Stuart Mill
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It got a majority of 167 - the biggest ever!
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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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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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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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Emmeline Pankhurst founded the movement in 1903.
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In the years up to 1900, parliament received a bill for womens suffrage 15 times - 15 times the bill failed.
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By what year had the suffragists gained the support of many Liberal MPs and some leading Conservative MPs, as well the the new/small Labour party?
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In which newspaper did the Suffragettes soon make the headlines?
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Who founded the suffragist movement?
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to Carlisle and offered free membership to working women.
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National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
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Asquith dropped the bill at the last minute.
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Women's Social & Political Union
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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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more votes but many back-bench conservative MPs opposed it as they didn't want the role of women to change.
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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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