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🗳 Votes for Women – Year 9

History · Year 9 (KS3) — suffragists, suffragettes, their tactics and how women won the vote

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Which woman led the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), the main suffragist group?

Christabel Pankhurst
Emily Davison
Millicent Fawcett
Emmeline Pankhurst
20s

In 1903, Emmeline Pankhurst founded a new campaign group in Manchester. What was it called?

Women's Land Army
Women's Freedom League
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
Women's Social and Political Union
20s

Which famous motto did the WSPU use to sum up its approach to winning the vote?

Deeds not words
Slow and steady
Votes before war
Peace and patience
20s

What was the main difference between the methods of suffragists and suffragettes?

Suffragists only campaigned after 1918
Suffragists used peaceful, lawful methods
Suffragists refused to speak in public
Suffragists used window smashing and arson
30s

At which sporting event in June 1913 was suffragette Emily Wilding Davison fatally injured?

Royal Ascot
The Grand National
The Epsom Derby
The Wimbledon Championships
20s

Which protest did imprisoned suffragettes use, starting with Marion Wallace Dunlop in 1909?

Hunger strikes
Refusing to wear prison clothes
Writing letters to the King
Chaining themselves inside cells
30s

What did the 1913 'Cat and Mouse Act' allow the government to do with hunger-striking suffragettes?

Force-feed them for longer sentences
Send them to prisons abroad
Free them if they promised to stop
Release them when weak, then re-arrest them
30s

How did the WSPU respond when the First World War began in 1914?

It increased its bombing campaign
It merged with the NUWSS
It halted militancy and backed the war effort
It campaigned against the war
30s

Under the 1918 Representation of the People Act, which women gained the vote?

All women over 18
All women over 21
Women over 25 who had done war work
Women over 30 who met a property qualification
30s

What did the 1928 Representation of the People Act (Equal Franchise Act) change?

Women could stand as MPs for the first time
Women could vote at 21, on the same terms as men
Men and women could vote at 18
Women could vote at 30 without owning property
30s