The Industrial Revolution

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

The process of enslavement

abolition

The action of getting rid of something

boycott

Refusal to buy certain goods

cat and mouse act

The policy borough in by the government to counteract the damage from the hunger strikes

Militant

Being violent in your methods

Middle passage

The route between Africa and the Americas that enslaved people were transported across

Strike

The action of refusing to work

1807

The Slave Trade is made illegal

1831

Mary Prince’s book is published and is used by abolitionists

1832

The great reform act, which inspires Chartists

1833

Slavery is outlawed

1888

Annie Besant’s article which starts the Matchgirls Strike

1909

The Hunger Strikes being in Royal Holloway Prison

18th November 1910

Black Friday - a confrontation between the WSPU and police

1913

Kew Garden and Penhurst Place arson attack, Government introduce Cat and Mouse Act

1914

First World War breaks out and Suffragettes halt protests

1918

WW1 ends and the Representation of the People Act is passed

Sophia Duleep Singh

A member of the WSPU who campaigned for women’s suffrage. She was an Indian Princess who was Queen Victoria’s goddaughter

Olaudah Equiano

A former enslaved man who campaigned for abolition, writing down his account and experience and joining the Sons of Africa

Mary Prince

A former enslaved woman who published her account of bedtime in enslavement, which was used by the abolitionist movement

William Wilberforce

A member of Parliament who campaigned for the abolition of slavery

Edward Colston

A slave trader from Bristol. He worked for the Royal Africa Company and his statue was thrown into a river in protest recently.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Leader of the WSPU who campaigned-The Suffragettes movement and was known for being militant

What were the conditions in the ‘Middle Passage’?

Cramped, dirty, and many people died

Examples of the cities that grew and developed as a result of their involvement in the slave trade

Bristol and Liverpool - which had major trading ports

What sparked a change in helping to introduce more trade union representatives, and also providing a start to the women’s suffrage movement?

In 1888, the workers at the Bryant May factory went on strike.

Lillian Lenton

Involved in the burning down of Kew Gardens pavilion

Emily Wilding Davidson

Died whilst trying to put a suffragettes banner of the kings horse.

What contributed to the government turning against the campaign for female suffrage?

The increasingly violent actions of the suffragettes

Where were a lot of campaigners going to?

Kent

How did women display patriotism?

Stopping their campaigning in World War I amd carrying out war work instead.

Women over 30 who had property gained the right to vote in …. By …., the age had been lowered to 21.

1918, 1928