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
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In this essay I will be describing the different methods which both the suffragists (the NUWSS) and the suffragettes (the WSPU) used during their suffrage campaigns. I will also be describing how successful they were in these methods and if they weren’t successful‚ what went wrong for them. I shall begin by describing the NUWSS. The NUWSS (the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies) was formed in 1897 and was led by Millicent Fawcett. They were the first of the two organizations to begin
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from England named Roger Bacon‚ which was born in 1214 and died in 1294‚ went around verbally assaulting people that thought they were scientists. Roger Bacon said that philosophers did not test their theories by observing‚ and testing. Roger Bacon also critiqued a person known as Albertus Magnus when he went to lecture at the University of Paris because they received him as a great scientist. Roger Bacon said that he never had seen such a big crime
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Describe the ways in which the methods of the suffragists and suffragettes were different. Women started campaigning to win the vote in the 1850’s. Small local groups had meetings nationwide to present their arguement for allowing women to vote. In 1877 - 78 there were 1‚300 meetings - this represents how serious the women were.The campaigners were mainly middle class‚ as‚ upper class ladies most propably found "campaigning" and "argueing" unlady like and inappropriate. However this does not
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two approaches: Suffragette and Suffragists. Which do you consider the most effective? Women’s suffrage in the United Kingdom was a national movement that began in 1872. Since the 1860s‚ women had been campaigning for the right to vote. Although women had made gains in areas such as education‚ real change could only come through by having a say in parliament. In the course of this movement‚ two parties were formed to fight for the rights of women: the Suffragettes and the Suffragists. Both parties
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While some praise her‚ others viewed the suffragette movement as ‘damaging to the cause of universal suffrage and criticised it for giving the government an excuse to deny women the vote’2. She was certainly a figurehead for the Women’s Social and Political Union and the sources I have researched for this enquiry focus on how influential Emmeline was and what she did to create a profound impact. Collectively‚ we can then see that there were many different ways such as Emmeline’s significance on creating
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Why did women have to wait until 1918 to gain the vote? By Kendrick Fordjour 9m2 Many women suffrage campaigners knew that the fight for women would be a tough fight one of which that would demand a lot of hard work and determination in order to achieve it. However as many historians may agree the fight for women’s suffrage took a long time longer than how the women suffrage campaigners expected it to be. The question to be asked is why did it take so long for women to gain suffrage? There is
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The Suffragettes in Cornwall * Green for hope‚ white for purity and purple for purity - in other words Green‚ White‚ Violet - Give Women the Vote. The Suffragettes were part of the women’s suffrage movements of the late 19th and early 20th century. For Victorian women‚ the inability to vote meant that they had very few rights and their disenfranchised status had become a symbol of civil inequality. The Suffragettes are not to be confused with the suffragists who were a more peaceful
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the rioting and campaigning of the Suffragettes that made the government give women the rights to vote‚ however the real reason was the hard work women had shown they were capable of during World War One. In 1906‚ the Daily Mail named the women who fought to try and get the vote for women‚ ‘The Suffragettes’ and they stuck with it. The main thing the Suffragettes did to make the government give in was violence. They started off by having marches through London which fascinated the public. But the following
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The suffraggetes were fed up with being ignored. They decided to take there campaign directly to the politicians. The suffragettes would shout out there slogan ‘votes for woman’ while the politician was speaking‚ such actions were very unusual and gained alot of publicity. However they knew that in time they would need new tactics if they were to be successfull. How and why did they the campaign become more violent? . The prime minster promised to change the law and then didn’t do it‚ he abandoned
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