Starter quiz
- ______ is the right to vote.
- 'Suffrage' ✓
- When war broke out in 1914, the suffragettes and suffragists suspended their ______ and joined the war effort.
- 'campaigns' ✓
- In what year did the WSPU organise a protest march called ‘the Right to Serve’?
- 1914
- 1915 ✓
- 1916
- 1917
- 1918
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- Despite being employed in the armed forces during WW1, women could not...
- 'fight' ✓
- The 1918 Representation of the People Act gave the vote to...
- all men ✓
- men with property
- married women over the age of 30 ✓
- all women
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- In what year was the Equal Franchise Act passed?
- 1921
- 1925
- 1928 ✓
- 1931
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Exit quiz
- Which statement best describes attitudes towards the suffrage movement in the mid to late nineteenth century?
- Some men supported it, but the vast majority did not. ✓
- A great many men supported it, with only a minority opposing it.
- All men opposed it.
- All men supported it.
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- Sexism was a __________ term factor that prevented women from obtaining the vote.
- short
- medium
- long ✓
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- The __________ government opposed the campaign for female suffrage for much of the early twentieth century.
- Liberal ✓
- Labour
- Conservative
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- Asquith's decision to drop the 1910 Conciliation Bill was a ______ term cause of the delay to female suffrage.
- short ✓
- medium
- long
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- Which of these best describes the state of the women's suffrage movement in the early twentieth century?
- Divided ✓
- Triumphant
- Successful
- Unified
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- Which of these events was a turning point in attitudes towards female suffrage?
- The creation of the WSPU
- The dropping of the Cnciliation Bill in 1910
- Emily Davison's death in 1913
- The First World War ✓
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Key learning points
- Despite the growth in female political participation, sexist attitudes prevailed by the late 19th century.
- Early suffrage campaigns led to a Conciliation Bill; this wasn't passed due to Liberal fears about how women would vote.
- WSPU tactics split the suffrage movement and hurt women's chances of getting the vote as government attitudes hardened.
- WW1 was a turning point in the campaign for women's suffrage due to their war work and the need for a new franchise act.
- A good explanation of why it took so long for women to get the vote in Britain will examine long and short term factors.
Common misconception
The view that it was the work women did to support the war effort which gained them the right to vote.
Many people were convinced women should be entitled to vote before 1914; however, the violence of the suffragettes and the interruption of WW1 delayed this.
Keywords
Suffrage - the right to vote
Long-term - occuring over a long period of time
Short-term - occuring over a short period of time
Stereotypes - the expectation people have of a particular type of person
Sexism - prejudice or discrimination, often against women, on the basis of sex
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