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10 Cards in this Set
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Laws that were passed in 1882
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- women kept incomes & property
-contraception |
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Local government act
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1900
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Suffragists
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Millicent fawcett, 1897
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Suffragettes
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Emmeline Pankhurst, plus 2 daughters Christable and Sylvia
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1913 (suffragettes tactic)
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Derby horse race. Emily Davison threw herself in front of a horse.
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Cat and mouse act
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1913, release hunger strikers until they were mentally and physically stable. eg. feb 1913 emmeline pankhurst went on hunger strike and rearrested 6 times.
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1916? what was so important about this date
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men were conscripted. This gave women a chance to replace them in their jobs. to add to the war effort.
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Reforms Act
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1867 & 1884- all soldiers overseas couldn't vote. so the government reconsidered.
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Representation of the People Act
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1918, all adults (males) over 21 were given the vote
women over the age of 30 who were householders or who were wife to householders could vote |
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Universal Suffrage
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10 years after the representation of the People act. so in 1928.
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