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  Key Issue: HOW EFFECTIVE WERE WOMENS CAMPAIGNS FOR
                   THE VOTE BETWEEN 1900 & 1914?

Lesson Objectives;
    Have a good knowledge of the different methods used by the Suffragists &
      Suffragettes to try and gain women’s suffrage.
    Be able to explain how successful each organisation was.
    Develop primary source handling skills.
    Understand the importance of the Anti-suffrage movement and their
      arguments
Outcomes: by the end of the lesson you will have
          Studied primary sources to develop your understanding of the methods
             used by the Suffragists and Suffragettes to get women the vote.
          Rated and explained the level of success of each organisation
          Independently answered the question “How successful was the Anti-
             Suffrage movement” in no more than 125 words.

                                    Key Words
  During the course of the lesson you must write a definition of the
  following words. All the information you need will be in the information
  we use today!

  Suffrage             A name given to the right to vote in national Parliamentary
                       elections
  Suffragists


  Cat & Mouse Act


  Emmeline
  Pankhurst

  Women’s Anti-
  Suffrage League

  Suffragettes

  Milicent Fawcette


  Mud March
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                       The Status of Women in 1900

  Task: Study the source below
  Source A
   “Failure to recognise that man is master, and why, is at the root of the
  suffrage movement. Suffragettes ignore man’s superior strength and they
  ignore the fact that government runs on force. They ignore man’s superior
  mind, and so think that they can think as well. They ignore man’s superior
  money-earning capacity, so ignore the power of the purse.”
           An extract from the Book, ‘The Case Against Woman Suffrage’, 1913

  Why does source A say that women should not have the right to vote?




  What is source B’s view on Women getting the vote?




  Do you find this surprising? Explain your answer




                       The Campaign for Women’s Suffrage
A background
  As the 19th century progressed, women were given a number of civil rights, including
  the right to vote in local elections (see your notes for more examples). But by
  1900 they had still not been given the right to vote in Parliamentary elections.

  The Campaign begins
  In 1866, a number of women took a petition, signed by 1,500 women and asking for
  the vote, to Parliament, where two of the handful of pro-vote MPs presented it. In
  1897, Millicent Fawcett brought the various women’s societies together into the
  National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). These ‘Suffragists’ as
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they were called, campaigned peacefully for the vote. Although the number of pro-
suffrage MPs in the House of Commons grew, the Suffragists made little progress.

In 1903, therefore, Emmeline Pankhurst formed the Women’s Social and Political
Union (WSPU). The ‘Suffragettes’, as they can to be called, were much more
aggressive in their campaign and saw the struggle for the vote as a war - women
against men.

Activity)
    Get into groups of no more than four
    Your envelope should contain - - sources and 2 headings, ‘Suffragist
       Methods’ & ‘Suffragette Methods’
    Spread out the sources on your desk.
    Each source represents a method used to try and win women the vote.
    1st – You must decide what the methods were
    2nd – You must put the method under the group you think used it.
    3rd – In your exercise book complete 2 spider diagrams


               Methods                                Methods
              used by the                            used by the
              Suffragists                            Suffragettes



Read the handout and Pp143 & 144 of the text book.
Make sure that you have all the different methods used by the Suffragists
and Suffragettes on your spider diagram.
    Fill in any examples, details of each method used.

Task:
Complete the table below in pencil.
On a scale of 1-10 rate how successful you think the Suffragists and
Suffragettes methods of winning the vote were.
Explain your choices.

Group             Level of    Explanation for the score
                 success on
                     10
Suffragists




Suffragettes
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Task: Now study the source on the board. Fill in the table above in pen.

                 The Campaign Against Women’s Suffrage

Task: Study the text and the Sources below.

       Many men opposed women’s suffrage. Most believed that a womens
place was at home and that women should not get involved in the messy world
of politics. In 1875, a Committee for Maintaining the Integrity of the
Franchise had been formed in Parliament. This organisation aimed to make
sure that women were not given the right to vote. It had a lot of power
because it was made up largely of MPs.
The Anti-Suffragists
       It was not just men who were against women’s suffrage, many women
opposed it too, for a variety of different reasons (see sources below). Many
people simply believed that the cause of women’s suffrage was wrong. In
1908 Mrs Humphrey ward, a writer and social worker, started the Women’s
Anti-Suffrage League. She believed that a woman’s place was in the home
and that everything that she did should be towards making her home a
better place. Any spare time and energy should be spent helping those less
fortunate than herself and not in fighting for her ‘rights’. In 1911 the
Women’s Anti-Suffrage League merged with the Men’s League for Opposing
Women’s Suffrage to form the National League for Opposing Women’s
Suffrage
                               Source C
Sources                           Women, as mother, sweetheart,
                              inspirer and friend, man accepts and
                                welcomes. But once she begins to
                                 invade his area, to do his work –
                                  then his jealousy will burst into
                               flame, and everywhere there will be
                                          great problems
                                              Anti-Suffrage Review




                                                                      In this cartoon by Bernard
                                                                      Partridge the sensible woman
                                                                      is saying to the Suffragette:
                                                                      ‘Help our cause? You’re its
                                                                      worst enemy.’


                                                                      Source D
                                                                      “I regard women as
                                                                      superior and I don’t like
                                                                      to see them trying to
                                 In this 1909 cartoon, the            become men’s equal”
                                 suffragette lists all the trouble
                                                                           Miss Violet Markham,
                                 she has caused, and then
                                 wonders why she still hasn’t got     speaking in October 1910
                                 the vote.
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      IMPORTANT: By 1914 women had not gained the right to vote in
          government elections. MPs had voted against it in 1912.

Task: Using the information you have studied on the Anti-Suffrage
movement answer the following Qs in no more than 125 words in your
exercise book:

    How successful was the Anti-Suffrage Movement? Fully explain
     your answer
You must include;
    Details on what methods the Anti-Suffrage movement used.
    Who supported them
    Why you think they were successful or not