History: assignment two

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1.        Study Source A. What can you learn from Source A about the reasons given by the suffragettes for demanding votes for women?

Source a show how the suffragettes thought that it was unfair that men that were irresponsible like convicts, lunatics and drunkards could vote. Unfortunately the responsible women like mayors, nurses, doctors or teachers that were mature could not vote. As this source is coming from the suffragettes it shows that they thought the suffragists methods had failed.  They may have also thought that their violent action didn’t have any affect on them getting the vote. In the end suffragettes resorted to using the suffragist’s tactics so they made themselves look silly.    

2.        Study sources B and C. Does Source B support the evidence of Source C about the suffragette campaign? Explain your answer by reference to both sources.

Source B is called Women or Suffragette which tells us Suffragettes are not classed as women by the author of the source, Marie Corelli maybe because Suffragettes were violent and unruly women where women stereotypes are not, hence the term, Lady-like. Also, as a woman wrote the Source, a woman’s view on Suffragettes is that they are not lady-like. Marie Corelli does not agree with letting women have the right to vote, but to rear their sons to treat women more equally as she says, Women were and are destined to make voters rather than to be voters themselves. Maybe she has said this because she was raised with the attitude that women are only meant to be mothers and wives, rather than people with interests in other things like politics.

Source C, produced my a man, with male views is an illustration which shows a lady-like, mature and high class lady  the Suffragist who fights for her cause maturely on the other had the violent and unruly Suffragette, who is named as the THE SHREIKING SISTER who is thought to be making suffrage for women more difficult by using irresponsible and aggressive tactics to get her point across.

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3.        Study sources D and E and use your own knowledge. Why, despite the Suffragette activity, had women not gained the vote by the outbreak of the First World War?

Source D was written by a famous leader of the Suffragette group, Emmeline Pankhurst, says the methods of getting their point across had failed to do so. They had thought the public must have been taught about women’s suffrage and the right for them to have it but there was already a large section of the public who were in favour of women’s suffrage, which would have quickly given then ...

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