women's suffrage

women's suffrage

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. prison

4. changes