Why All Women Got the Right to Vote by 1918
Why all women got the right to vote by 1928.
In 1928, all women finally got the right to vote. It took them 78 years to do it, but all their hard work had paid off. The women campaigning tried everything, for example, they got themselves arrested, they went on hunger strikes while in prison, they tried to get noticed by the media and many more. Some of the main things that really helped women get the vote were The Suffragists, The Suffragettes, Legislation and War Effort. The suffragists used peaceful tactics when they protested and showed men that they could be responsible unlike the Suffragettes who used violent methods to try and get noticed by everyone. The War Effort also helped women gain the vote as it showed men that they were capable of doing the same jobs as them. Legislation also let women become freer to do as they please as the years progressed and it slowly helped them gain the right to vote by 1928.
In 1866 a group of women came together and organised a petition that demanded that women should have the same political rights as men. The women took the petition to Henry Fawcett and John Mill who were two MPs who wanted women to have the right to vote. The amendment was declined and laughed upon at the parliament. When the group of women found out that their amendment failed, they formed a suffrage group. Groups all over Britain were formed. A year later, several of these groups joined together to form the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies. The NUWSS was formed by Millicent Fawcett. They called themselves the Suffragists because they were trying to mock the word suffrage which means the right to vote. The Suffragists wanted to campaign for women’s suffrage but they didn’t want any violence so they continued with the peaceful way of campaigning. They did things like handing out leaflets and holding meetings to show that they could be civil, independent and trusted with the right to vote which men thought they couldn’t be. The suffragists
In 1928, all women finally got the right to vote. It took them 78 years to do it, but all their hard work had paid off. The women campaigning tried everything, for example, they got themselves arrested, they went on hunger strikes while in prison, they tried to get noticed by the media and many more. Some of the main things that really helped women get the vote were The Suffragists, The Suffragettes, Legislation and War Effort. The suffragists used peaceful tactics when they protested and showed men that they could be responsible unlike the Suffragettes who used violent methods to try and get noticed by everyone. The War Effort also helped women gain the vote as it showed men that they were capable of doing the same jobs as them. Legislation also let women become freer to do as they please as the years progressed and it slowly helped them gain the right to vote by 1928.
In 1866 a group of women came together and organised a petition that demanded that women should have the same political rights as men. The women took the petition to Henry Fawcett and John Mill who were two MPs who wanted women to have the right to vote. The amendment was declined and laughed upon at the parliament. When the group of women found out that their amendment failed, they formed a suffrage group. Groups all over Britain were formed. A year later, several of these groups joined together to form the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies. The NUWSS was formed by Millicent Fawcett. They called themselves the Suffragists because they were trying to mock the word suffrage which means the right to vote. The Suffragists wanted to campaign for women’s suffrage but they didn’t want any violence so they continued with the peaceful way of campaigning. They did things like handing out leaflets and holding meetings to show that they could be civil, independent and trusted with the right to vote which men thought they couldn’t be. The suffragists