Suffragettes - Brief Notes

♀The Suffragettes It was important for women to get the vote because then they could change the laws that were discriminating against them. When women had received the vote they would vote for the MP that will represent their views in Parliament. Wanted same pay as men. WAYS OF ACHEIVING CHANGE Petitions Strikes Direct Action (e.g. - blockades) Demonstrate (e.g. - march, hunger strikes) Referendum Boycott. ALLTHESE METHODS NEED SUPPORT AND A LEADER. …

…they moved on to were burning empty houses, ringing false fire alarms, and destroying paintings 4. Many were imprisoned, and when they were in prison they continued fighting for their cause by going on hunger strikes 5. the Governments methods of dealing with this - they force fed the prisoners or they let people go home to recover from their hunger strike and then again arrest them again later. This was called the 'Cat and Mouse act'