Campaigns for women's suffrage
I can explain the peaceful tactics of the early suffrage movement and how it was brought together by Fawcett to form the NUWSS.
Campaigns for women's suffrage
I can explain the peaceful tactics of the early suffrage movement and how it was brought together by Fawcett to form the NUWSS.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Despite opposition to female suffrage, a number of suffrage groups were set up across the country from the 1860s.
- In 1897, Millicent Fawcett set up the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
- The NUWSS preferred peaceful means such as writing letters to MPs.
- Early campaigns for women's suffrage involved a mixture of middle- and working-class women.
- Early campaigns for women's suffrage had failed to gain women the right to vote by 1914.
Keywords
Suffrage - the right to vote
Suffragist - a person advocating for the extension of the right to vote; especially to women
Common misconception
The suffrage movement always involved violent or illegal tactics as well as peaceful and legal ones.
The early suffragist movement was committed to peaceful tactics, even among the so-called 'radical suffragists'.
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- Depiction or discussion of discriminatory behaviour
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Exit quiz
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a person advocating for the extension of the right to vote
the right to vote