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Describe Ways in Which the Methods of the Suffragists and Suffragettes Where Different
During the long and arduous women's rights campaign there were two main campaign parties, the Suffragists and the Suffragettes. These two parties and there overall aims were very well known throughout the British Empire and some of the tactics used were very brutal, but extremely effective.

So to begin, the Suffragists were an extremely large group of women and some men who believed that the women of the British Empire should have the right to vote for who ran the country that they lived in. The suffragist movement (the NUWSS (National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies)) was founded in 1897 by Millicent Fawcett who was born in Suffolk in 1847. Apparently she was hit by inspiration at one of the MPs John Stuart Mill's (representative of women's suffrage in the houses of parliament) speeches in 1865 as he explained to the public about women's rights and why women should be allowed to vote thus leading her to the creation of the NUWSS. Millicent did not believe that violence gave results, so the NUWSS attempted many peaceful methods of communicating with the men of the government to get there rights law past, for example they wrote letters to members of parliament, they visited member's houses and they signed many, many, many petitions. However, there rather feeble attempts were unsuccessful and no news came to them of the law being past.

So in 1903 two women Emmeline Pankhurst (Born 1858 in Manchester) and her daughter Christabel Pankhurst (Born 1880 in Manchester) got fed up with the slow and inadequate protesting of Mrs Fawcett. They believed that violence gave results, they wanted the right to vote and they wanted it now. So they decided to create the "Women's Social and Political Group" (WSPU), soon thousands of other women flocked to this promising, new group and this now massive group of women caused absolute mayhem throughout the country. These were women who were now 100% inpatient and frustrated, after 35 years they still hadn't gotten any closer to

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