Woman's Suffrage
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- Woman's Suffrage
- suffragettes
- Believed that peaceful protests were not effective
- They took a violent approach to win the vote.
- Originally stemmed from the suffragists
- WSPU
- Woman's society and political union
- Led by Emmiline Pankhurst and her daughters
- Formed in 1903
- Only involved woman
- Their motto was "Deeds not words"
- Arguements
- AGAINST
- Woman were deemed to indecisive
- A lot of woman weren't interested
- Was against their social expectations
- Was considered a mans responsiblity
- Woman would not understand or their choices would be irrational
- FOR
- Men of a lesser status were about to vote e. alcoholics
- They were more likely to vote
- They were effected by decisions made in politics
- Woman paid taxes
- AGAINST
- Suffragists
- Led by Millicent Fawcett
- NUWSS
- National union of woman's suffrage society
- Believed in peaceful protest - for example marches
- Formed in 1897
- Democratic organisation
- Involved both men and woman
- THE WAR
- Both organisations stopped protesting to support the war effort
- They worked in factories and other laborious jobs in the absence of men
- By supporting the war effort Woman's suffrage was given a good image
- Viewed to be helping society
- DEEDS NOT WORDS
- Emily Davison made herself a martyr by throwing herself in front of the Kings horse (1913)
- Cat and mouse act
- This meant suffragettes in prison who went on hunger strike would be released when the got to weak and when they regained strength they would finish their sentence
- Arrested Suffragettes who went to prison would continue protest through hunger strike
- Originally the government ordered prisons to force feed the protesters
- This approach was deemed barbaric and put pressure on the government to stop
- Many people started to feel sympathetic towards the Suffragettes
- This approach was deemed barbaric and put pressure on the government to stop
- Originally the government ordered prisons to force feed the protesters
- Violent acts to enforce their point
- Many political figures began to fear them
- Slashing paintings at the National art gallery
- Threw stones at the windows of Downing street
- Threw flour on MP's
- suffragettes
- Suffragists
- Led by Millicent Fawcett
- NUWSS
- National union of woman's suffrage society
- Believed in peaceful protest - for example marches
- Formed in 1897
- Democratic organisation
- Involved both men and woman
- FOR
- Men of a lesser status were about to vote e. alcoholics
- They were more likely to vote
- They were effected by decisions made in politics
- Woman paid taxes
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