Text Overview and Argument (VCE SSCE English): Flashcards
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Date & location of 'Freedom or Death' speech
Date & location of 'Freedom or Death' speech
13 Nov 1913, Parsons Theater, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Organisation Pankhurst led
Organisation Pankhurst led
Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
Official name of Cat and Mouse Act
Official name of Cat and Mouse Act
Prisoners, Temporary Discharge for Health Act 1913
What Cat and Mouse Act involved
What Cat and Mouse Act involved
Force-feeding, release when weak, then re-arrest
Who was Sir Edward Carson?
Who was Sir Edward Carson?
Irish unionist leader who armed rebels without prosecution
Pankhurst's central thesis about suffrage denial
Pankhurst's central thesis about suffrage denial
It declares women's lives worthless/civic death
Key distinction in suffragette militant tactics
Key distinction in suffragette militant tactics
Targeted property, not people; human life sacred
Definition of 'sweated labour'
Definition of 'sweated labour'
Exploitative work conditions with extremely low wages
Speech's climactic ultimatum phrase
Speech's climactic ultimatum phrase
Freedom or death
3 revolutions Pankhurst referenced for precedent
3 revolutions Pankhurst referenced for precedent
American (1775-83), Russian (1905), Chinese (1911-12)