Describe the ways in which the methods of the suffragists and suffragettes were different.

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Describe the ways in which the methods of the suffragists and suffragettes were different.

 There were two different movements in order for women’s rights consisting of suffragists and suffragettes. They both fought for the same point and the rights for women. Suffragists used peaceful, legal tactics to win support because the leader of that particular movement Millicent Fawcett thought by distributing their views in this way the media and public would listen to them and they wouldn’t disapprove of them. This was founded in 1897 to unite most of the existing suffrage societies. Their tactics were moderate, peaceful persuasion and also constitutional. There methods used were to meet with politicians to argue their case this could be done by reasoned arguments, meetings as well as issuing leaflets They were known as the National Union of Women’s Suffrage (N.U.W.S.S) in conjunction with their aims being to expand the rights of women and to improve social conditions. However after 30 years of peaceful campaigning producing hardly any changes, led to the development of militant groups beginning to emerge such as the suffragettes. In comparison to suffragist there were suffragettes who used violent methods because their leader Emmeline Pankhurst thought by this way it would attract the attention of the public and the media, so they could hear the views because no one would listen to them. Their tactics were militant, violent and confrontational, often illegal and involving public disorder. Their most effective method was to use megaphones to heckle speakers at liberal meetings and their motto was ‘Deeds, not words’.  They were known as the Women’s Social and Political Union (W.S.P.U) and also their aims being to achieve the same political rights for women as there were for men.  

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Another relevant and specific method was parliamentary lobbying. The suffragettes only did use this method. One of the things the suffragettes did was to get a private members bill, this was done by suffragettes who had an mp but not in a high rank that supported them and felt it was right for women to get certain rights. They also tried to bully the parties such as the liberal democrats, conservatives or labour to adopt women’s rights as the policy of the party, policy of the party being the idea that a particular party has and if they were ...

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