Women’s suffrage (AQA GCSE History): Flashcards
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Campaigners for women's voting rights (term)
Campaigners for women's voting rights (term)
Suffragists
Author of 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' (1792)
Author of 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' (1792)
Mary Wollstonecraft
Tried to amend 1832 Reform Act to include women
Tried to amend 1832 Reform Act to include women
Henry Hunt
Liberal MP who tried to introduce women's vote (1867)
Liberal MP who tried to introduce women's vote (1867)
John Stuart Mill
President of NUWSS from 1890
President of NUWSS from 1890
Millicent Fawcett
NUWSS full name
NUWSS full name
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
NUWSS's main campaign strategy
NUWSS's main campaign strategy
Legal methods only
NUWSS's political party stance
NUWSS's political party stance
Non-partisan (no party alignment)
Three categories of suffragist arguments
Three categories of suffragist arguments
Equality, representation, democracy
Equality argument for suffrage
Equality argument for suffrage
Women same intelligence as men, deserve equal political rights
Democracy argument for suffrage
Democracy argument for suffrage
Citizens who obey laws should have voice in making them
Representation argument for suffrage
Representation argument for suffrage
Parliament should reflect wishes of all people it governs
Ideology: men in public, women in domestic sphere
Ideology: men in public, women in domestic sphere
Separate spheres