Women's right to vote
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- Created on: 04-02-14 17:53
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- Women's vote
- Suffragettes
- 1903
- Leaders- Emmeline Pankhurst and Christabel
- Actions were militant and radical (aggressive)
- Target Prime Minister Asquith, who was against giving the vote to women.
- Threw stones at the Prime Ministers house - 10 Downing Street.
- Emily New tied herself to the railings outside 10 Downing street and was removed by the police when making a speech.
- Disrupted political meetings.
- WSPU- Women's social and political union.
- Set up after the lack of success by the Suffragists.
- Suffragists
- Peace and legal campaigns
- local groups formed in the 1860s, however they came together international in 1897.
- Leader-Millicent Fawcett.
- Held meetings and speeches.
- Sent petitions to parliament.
- NUWSS- National Union of Womens suffrage society.
- Lobbied MPS from different parties to persuade them to support the right for women to vote.
- Suffragettes
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