Starter quiz
- Emily Davison was knocked down by a...
- 'horse' ✓
- Emily might have been trying to put a ______ on a horse.
- seat
- flower
- banner ✓
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- 50,000 people lined the streets at Emily's funeral.
- True ✓
- False
- 5,000 {______ walked in a procession at the funeral.
- police
- Suffragettes ✓
- horses
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- Select the colour which was not included on Suffragette banners.
- red ✓
- green
- white
- purple
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- Who did the horse that knocked Emily over belong to?
- The Suffragettes
- Queen Victoria
- King George V ✓
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Exit quiz
- The First World War began in...
- 1814
- 1914 ✓
- 2014
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- Lots of British ______ joined the army and left Britain to go and fight in the war.
- women
- men ✓
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- True or false. When the First World War started, the Suffragettes stopped using militant tactics.
- True ✓
- False
- Select the one job that women did NOT do in Britain during the First World War.
- mechanic
- firefighter
- bus driver
- soldier ✓
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- In 1918, women over the age of 30 were…
- allowed to vote. ✓
- allowed to become soldiers.
- tired of working jobs.
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- British women were ______ during the First World War.
- not important
- very important ✓
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Key learning points
- The year after Emily Davison died, a large war broke out and men in Britain had to go and fight.
- With the men gone, women had to take on their jobs; they showed how strong and capable they were.
- At the end of the war, people appreciated how much women had done while the men were away.
- They also remembered how brave suffragettes like Emily Davison were.
- As a result, it was decided that some women should be allowed to vote.
Common misconception
That certain jobs are for men only or women only.
Just like during the war, anyone should be able to and can do any job.
Keywords
First world war - the First World War lasted from 1914 to 1918 and involved countries from all over the world, including Britain
Vote - when someone can vote, they are allowed to make a choice about who runs the country
Factory - a factory is a big building full of machines for making things
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