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GCSE History Practice Test: British Society - The Issue of Votes for Women
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The issue of votes for women was a major political concern in the years leading up to the Great War. Women activists were divided over how to influence an apparently indifferent Parliament. Change, when it came, took many people by surprise.

GCSE History Practice Test: British Society - The Issue of Votes for Women
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1. Suffragists were members of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. Who founded this organisation?
2. In 1914 a quarrel erupted between Christabel Pankhurst and her sister Sylvia. What was the issue at stake?
3. Emmeline Pankhurst founded the WSPU as a rival to the NUWSS. What do the letters WSPU stand for?
4. Which one factor best explains the grant of the vote to some women in 1918?
5. Queen Victoria, who died in 1901, made plain her attitude to female suffrage. What was it?
6. In 1918 a section of the female population won the right to vote at last. So in the Khaki Election" of December 1918 which women were allowed to vote?"
7. At which race meeting was Emily Davison killed in 1913, when she ran onto the course and was fatally injured by the King's horse Anmer"?"
8. What was the importance of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson in the campaign to secure women's rights ?
9. Which Act of Parliament of 1913 allowed for women prisoners who embarked on hunger strikes to be freed until they had recovered?
10. What was the essential difference between suffragists and suffragettes?

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