Zusammenfassung der Ressource
women's suffrage
- Suffragettes
- Suffragettes were more violent and
often got sent to prison for this.
- Emily Davison died trying to rap a scarf
around the kings horse to support the
Suffragettes. (5th June 1913)
- The three main patriots were Emmeline,
Christabel Pankhurst.
- hunger strikes, chaining
themselves to railings and
setting fire to post boxes
were ways the Suffragettes
got awareness.
- Suffragists
- formed before the suffragettes
and are a lot less violent
- formed in 1866, when
they took the first
petition that was
declined 196 to 73
- 1817: 17 groups of suffragists from
around the country join up to form the
National Union of Womens Suffrage
Society (NUWSS)
- Acts of 1870, 1882 and
1883 made it so a woman
could keep any property in
her maiden or married
name after divorce.
(ammended in 1925)
- Sylvia Pankhurst was a patriot of this, relation to
Suffragette Patriots Emmeline and Christabel
Pankhurst.
- prison
- changes