Suffragists and Suffragettes

Who founded the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies aka 'the suffragist movement'?

• Emmeline Penthwick

• Millicent Fawcett

• Emmeline Pankhurst

• Emily Wilding

When was the suffragettes movement created and by whom?

• 1897 by Emeline Pankhurst

• 1899 by Milicent Fawcett

• 1903 by Emeline Pankhurst

• 1908 Milicent Fawcett

When did women get the parliamentary vote in the UK?

• 1916

• 1917

• 1918

• 1919

The motto of the Suffragettes was

• 'Deeds and words"

• 'Deeds not words’.

• 'Actions speak louder than words'

What was the difference between suffragettes and suffragists?

• Suffragists were militant, suffragettes were peaceful

• Suffragists were peaceful, suffragettes were militant

• They were both peaceful

• They were both militant

What was the difference between suffragettes and suffragists?

• Suffragists were militant, suffragettes were peaceful

• Suffragists were peaceful, suffragettes were militant

• They were both peaceful

• They were both militant

When all suffragette prisoners started to go on hunger strike, what did the authorities do to begin with?

• They let the women die in prison

• They immediately released them

• They let the women grow weak and then released them

• They force-fed them

The Cat and Mouse Act of 1913 enabled the police to:

• run after all protesters and arrest them

• release women when they became ill and then to re-arrest them

• release women for good when they became ill

The first world war played an important role in persuading the government to grant women the vote because:

• the government was happy the Allies had won the war

• women contributed to the war effort

• too many men had been killed

What was the name of the woman who threw herself under the King Horse ?

• Emmeline Pankhurst

• Violet Markham

• Emilie Davinson

• Margaret Thatcher