Campaigns for women's suffrage | History | Quizalize & Oak National Academy

Starter quiz

The women's suffrage movement was the campaign to gain women the right to ...
- 'vote' ✓
Which Reform Act gave middle-class men the right to vote in Britain for the first time?
- The 1832 Reform Act. ✓
- The 1867 Reform Act.
- The 1884 Reform Act.
Which movement did some women get involved with in the 19th century?
- the civil rights movement
- the animal rights movement
- the climate change movement
- the abolitionist movement ✓
Which of these laws increased the legal rights of women in 1882?
- The Second Reform Act.
- The Married Women's Property Act. ✓
- The Third Reform Act.
In 1888, a ______ at the Bryant and May factory helped women to gain higher wages.
- fire
- revolution
- strike ✓
- petition
Although women were increasingly involved in ______ life in Britain by the early 20th century, they still could not vote.
- 'political' ✓

Match each keyword with its correct definition.
- suffragist
  
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  a person advocating for the extension of the right to vote ✓
- suffrage
  
  ⇔
  
  the right to vote ✓
One reason why some people objected to female suffrage was because they feared it would harm ______ life.
- 'family' ✓
Complete the sentence: The NUWSS carried out a peaceful campaign, such as writing letters to ______.
- 'Members of Parliament' ✓
Which woman was the first leader of the NUWSS?
- Selina Cooper
- Elizabeth Fawcett
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- Millicent Fawcett ✓
Complete the sentence: Working-class suffragists were called ______ suffragists, but they still believed in the use of peaceful tactics.
- 'radical' ✓
Starting with the earliest, sort the following stages in the development of the suffragists.
- 1
  
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  Separate regional groups set up all across Britain.
- 2
  
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  The MP John Stuart Mill presents a petition to parliament.
- 3
  
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  The NUWSS is created to bring the various suffrage societies together.
- 4
  
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  The NUWSS attracts over 100 000 members.

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Despite opposition to female suffrage, a number of suffrage groups were set up across the country from the 1860s.
In 1897, Millicent Fawcett set up the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
The NUWSS preferred peaceful means such as writing letters to MPs.
Early campaigns for women's suffrage involved a mixture of middle- and working-class women.
Early campaigns for women's suffrage had failed to gain women the right to vote by 1914.

The suffrage movement always involved violent or illegal tactics as well as peaceful and legal ones.

The early suffragist movement was committed to peaceful tactics, even among the so-called 'radical suffragists'.

Suffrage - the right to vote
Suffragist - a person advocating for the extension of the right to vote; especially to women