Wider franchise and debates over suffrage

Question 1

Great reform act - when?

Answer 1

1832

Question 2

what was the great reform act?

Answer 2

• expanded suffrage to people seen as lower class (ppl who owned smaller amount of land) - small landowners , tenant farmers shopkeepers
• result of industrial revolution = subsequent increased pressure for reform

Question 3

Define suffrage/franchise

Answer 3

• the right to vote, in modern democracies suffrage is extended to all adult and no groups are excluded - otherwise the system would be seen as undemocratic

Question 4

when was the 2nd reform act ?

Answer 4

1867 - further developments on male suffrage

Question 5

what is the 2nd reform act?

Answer 5

in light of chartist movements for ‘one man one vote’ the act , the act extended suffrage to all hosueholders and reduced the property threshold which was required to be eligible for voting.

Question 6

when were the representation of the people acts?

Answer 6

1918, 1928 and 1969

Question 7

what did the rep people acts up to 28 do ?

Answer 7

• pressure by the suffragists and suffragettes swell as WWII extended suffrage to women , reducing the age limit on women’s voting. Continuing reform of suffrage.

Question 8

what did the suffragists do?

Answer 8

• various movements united in 1897 by Millicent Fawcett creating the national union of women’s suffrage societies
• methods included writing letters , pamphlet and giving educational lectures, organising petitions and peaceful protests

Question 9

what did the suffragettes do?

Answer 9

• frustrated by lack of progress by Suffragists = women’s social and political union (WPU)
• founded by Emeline Pankhurst
• more direct action , violence and disruption of political meetings, buildings and going on hunger strikes in prison

Question 10

Rep of people act 1969 did what?

Answer 10

reduced voting age from 21 to 18.