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Enquiry 2 What were the suffrage campaigners fighting for?

Explore the suffrage campaigners' fight for equality through lessons on their goals, the radical suffragists, suffragettes, and the outcomes by 1918. Complete an extended explanation.

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Enquiry 2 What were the suffrage campaigners fighting for?

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  1. Enquiry 2What were the suffrage campaigners fighting for?

  2. Enquiry overview Lesson 1: What were the nineteenth-century campaigners fighting for? Lesson 2: What were the radical suffragists fighting for? Lesson 3: Were the suffragettes and the suffragists fighting for the same things? Lesson 4: What were different people within the suffrage movement fighting for? Lesson 5: What had been won by 1918? Outcome activity: Write an extended explanation answering the enquiry question.

  3. Lesson 5What had been won by 1918?

  4. Lesson 5 overview • Content covered in the lesson: • The terms of the 1918 Representation of the People Act. • The terms of the 1928 Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act. • Responses to the 1918 Act by the WSPU and by Millicent Fawcett and the NUWSS

  5. What were the suffrage campaigners fighting for? Recap Recap: Give two different reasons for fighting for suffrage held by people you researched.

  6. Terms of the 1918 Representation of the People Act The Representation of the People Act 1918 gave the vote to all men over the age of 21. It also gave women over 30 the vote – as long as they met the property qualification, which was that they had to occupy land or a house for which they paid ‘rates’ (council tax) of £5 or over. Q:Would all the groups be happy with this? Q: Identify which of the reasons for wanting the vote are being referred to in 1918, and which ones are still being left out.

  7. Responses to the 1918 Act by the WSPU and by Millicent Fawcett and the NUWSS Activity: Database research Your challenge is to assess responses to the 1918 Act. Tasks: ) Read the letters from the ‘Women’s Party’ and Millicent Fawcett alongside your Plenary sheet. 2.) Which of the reasons for wanting the vote are being mentioned here and which are being left out? 3.) Highlight your plenary sheets with the reasons you can find.

  8. Terms of the 1928 Equal Franchise Act Ten years later, the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act gave all men and women over the age of 21 the vote, without any property qualifications. Q:Are all the women we have looked at going to be included now?

  9. What were the suffrage campaigners fighting for? Outcome activity: Tasks: Complete your extended explanation. In pairs, read each other’s explanations. Have all of the different women you have looked at over the last few lessons been included? Add in any that have been left out. Your challenge is to complete an extended explanation giving your answer to the enquiry question.

  10. The nineteenth-centurycampaigners People in the suffrage movement The suffragettes The radical suffragists What were the suffrage campaigners fighting for? Plenary: What were the people in the movement fighting for?

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