Votes for Women

Question 1

What does suffrage mean?

Answer 1

The right to vote

Question 2

What is a suffragette?

Answer 2

A woman who wanted the vote

Question 3

Why did women want the vote?

Answer 3

So they could be equal to men

Question 4

Who did women’s money legally belong to?

Answer 4

Men

Question 5

What size of families were encouraged?

Answer 5

Very large families

Question 6

When was a woman expected to quit her job?

Answer 6

After she had children

Question 7

Which classes of women were not expected to work?

Answer 7

Upper and middle

Question 8

Name three jobs women were not allowed to do?

Answer 8

Diplomats, barristers and judges

Question 9

Could women go to university?

Answer 9

It was virtually impossible

Question 10

On what grounds could a man divorce his wife?

Answer 10

Adultery

Question 11

After a divorce who had control of children and property?

Answer 11

The husband

Question 12

What type of tactics did suffragettes use?

Answer 12

Militant

Question 13

What was the WSPU’s motto?

Answer 13

Deeds not words

Question 14

When was the cat and mouse act introduced?

Answer 14

April 1913

Question 15

When were all women over 21 given the vote?

Answer 15

July 1928

Question 16

What did the WSPU and the NUWSS encourage their members to do when the war started?

Answer 16

Help with the war effort

Question 17

When was the WSPU founded?

Answer 17

October 1903 in Manchester in Emmeline Pankhurst’s house

Question 18

Who was the first female MP and when did she take her seat?

Answer 18

Nancy Astor in 1919

Question 19

When was Emily Wilding Davison killed?

Answer 19

June 1913

Question 20

What happened in December 1870?

Answer 20

The married women’s property act gave women the right to own property

Question 21

When was the representation of the people bill passed?

Answer 21

1918

Question 22

What did the Representation of the People Act allow?

Answer 22

Women over the age of 30 to vote and men over the age of 21

Question 23

When was the NUWSS founded?

Answer 23

1897

Question 24

Who founded the NUWSS?

Answer 24

Millicent Fawcett

Question 25

What does NUWSS stand for?

Answer 25

National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies

Question 26

What does WSPU stand for?

Answer 26

Women’s Social and Political Union

Question 27

What was the NUWSS’s nickname?

Answer 27

Suffragists

Question 28

What was the WSPU’s nickname?

Answer 28

Suffragettes

Question 29

Which organisation was not militant?

Answer 29

The suffragists

Question 30

Who led the WSPU?

Answer 30

Emmeline Pankhurst

Question 31

Who nicknamed the Suffragettes?

Answer 31

The Daily Mail

Question 32

Who introduced Emmeline Pankhurst to the campaign?

Answer 32

Her family

Question 33

Why did Emmeline Pankhurst want votes for women?

Answer 33

Because she saw the problems other women faced

Question 34

Why did Emmeline Pankhurst set up the WSPU?

Answer 34

She felt that militant techniques were the only way to get the vote

Question 35

What are some tactics used by the NUWSS?

Answer 35

Writing letters to MPs, petitions, protests meetings

Question 36

What are some tactics used by the WSPU?

Answer 36

Burning postboxes, same tactics as the NUWSS, burning acid into sports pitches, planting bombs, hunger striking

Question 37

Who and when was the first hunger striker?

Answer 37

Marion Wallace Dunlop in 1909

Question 38

How were prisoners force fed?

Answer 38

They were pinned down and a tube was put down their throat and liquid food was poured down

Question 39

What was the Cat and Mouse Act?

Answer 39

The government released the suffragettes from prison with the idea that they would come back when they recovered. They didn’t

Question 40

What was the Cat and Mouse Act’s official name?

Answer 40

The prisoners temporary discharge for ill heath act

Question 41

Who was Emily Davison?

Answer 41

The WSPU’s supposed martyr

Question 42

When did Emily Davison get hit by the king’s horse?

Answer 42

4th June 1913

Question 43

What happened when WW1 started to the WSPU?

Answer 43

They stopped campaigning for the vote and started war work

Question 44

How many women did war work at its peak?

Answer 44

1.2 million

Question 45

What happened in December 1918

Answer 45

Women 30 or above got the vote, men over 21 got the vote

Question 46

What happened in 1928?

Answer 46

Everyone aged 21 got the vote and

Question 47

What was the act that gave women the vote?

Answer 47

The Representation of the People’s Act

Question 48

What are some some WSPU tactics?

Answer 48

Advertising, hunger striking, martyr, arson, stone throwing, writing letters to MPs, holding rallies, writing petitions

Question 49

What are some examples of women’s war work?

Answer 49

Ammunition workers, nurses, building planes, welders, bus drivers

Question 50

What are some NUWSS tactics?

Answer 50

Writing letters to Maps, petitions, protests meetings

Question 51

What are some WSPU tactics?

Answer 51

Same tactics as the NUWSS, burning post boxes, burning acid into sports pitches, planting bombs, arson, hunger striking etc.

Question 52

Who was Marion Wallace Dunlop?

Answer 52

The first WSPU hunger striker

Question 53

When did Emily Davison get hit by a horse?

Answer 53

4th June 1913

Question 54

Where did Emily Davison get hit by a horse?

Answer 54

At the Epsom Derby

Question 55

Which horse hit Emily Wilding Davison?

Answer 55

The kings horse

Question 56

What date did Emily Davison die?

Answer 56

8th June 1913