How did women get right to vote?

What is the meaning of suffrage?

The right to vote

How did WWI help women get the vote?

Women proved their importance by doing men’s jobs.

Name the peaceful suffrage group

Suffragists / NUWSS ( National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies )

Name the militant suffrage group

Suffragettes / WSPU ( Women’s Social and Political Union )

What was the Suffragettes’ motto?

“Deeds Not Words”

Who died at the 1913 Derby

Emily Wilding Davison

Force-Feeding

Forcing food into hunger-striking prisoners

1918 Act?

Gave women over 30 to vote

When were equal voting rights given?

1928

Who founded the Suffragists and Suffragettes?

Suffragists - Millicent Fawcett

Suffragettes - Emmeline Pankhurst

Why did people oppose women voting?

Believed women belonged in the home.

What role did propaganda play?

Encouraged women into war work.

What did women do in munitions factories?

Made shells and weapons.

Why did women get the vote in 1918?

War work + long-term campaigning.

When were the WSPU and NUWSS founded?

1903 and 1897