Politics History Suffragettes Y8

• democracy


  A type of government where the power rests with the people, usually through MPs
• constituency


  An area in the country represented by an MP
• MP


  A person elected by the people to sit in Parliament
• election


  The process of choosing a person by voting
• voting


  A choice in an election or any decision
• Parliament is made up of many MPs and other people of higher power and lower power and many parties
• You can only vote in your constituency
• Political parties in the UK


  • Lib Dem
  • Labour
  • Green
  • Independent National
  • Independent
• Parliament is made up of the House of Commons and the House of Lords
• The House of Commons is made up of 650 MPs who we elect
• The Monarch ratifies the House of Commons and adds officiality
• The Speaker of the House of Commons leads the House of Commons
• There is 1 Prime Minister is for the whole country
• Chartists


  A group of mainly working class people who were dissatisfied with the Reform Act as they wanted the vote too
• Chartists


  • Formed a group in 1838
  • Led by William Lovett and Feargus O'Connor
• People's Charter


  A demand for 6 key reforms
• Chartist Demands


  • A vote for every man 21 years of age
  • The ballot (voting slip) should be secret
  • No property qualification-rich or poor should be able to vote and become MPs
  • MPs should be paid so anyone can afford to be an MP
  • Equal constituencies - each MP should represent the same number of voters
  • There should be annual elections
• The ballot (voting slip) should be secret
• No property qualification-rich or poor should be able to vote and become MPs
• MPs should be paid so anyone can afford to be an MP
• Equal constituencies - each MP should represent the same number of voters
• There should be annual elections
• The Great Reform was when they wanted to allow middle class men to vote
• The Great Reform act helped middle class men
• The Great Reform was not positive because it hardly effected the system and as the biggest change that was really disappointing
• Chartist slogan: 'Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must!'
• How did Women's Rights change?

  1. 1834 Women tax payers could vote for (but not be) Poor Law Guardians

  2. 1839 An 'innocent (ie widowed) mother could have custody of her children until they were seven years old

  3. 1857 Divorce Act: if her husband had deserted her, a woman had the same rights to property as a single woman

  4. 1870 Married Woman's Property Act: women could keep own earnings, property acquired after marriage and hold a separate savings account

  5. 1870 Education Act: women ratepayers (tax payers) could vote for, and serve on school boards

  6. 1873 An innocent' mother could have custody of her children until the children were sixteen years old

  7. 1875 Women could be elected as Poor Law Guardians

  8. 1882 Married Women's Property Act: women could keep property acquired before marriage

  9. 1888 Women could vote in county and borough elections

  10. 1891 A man could not force his wife to live in the matrimonial home

  11. 1894 Women could serve on urban and district councils are councillors
• Emily Pankhurst


  Justified calling off the Suffrage campaign in 1914 because she thought getting a vote was pointless if they convinced man to go to war, so that all the 'manly roles would open up
• Vesta Tilley


  Dressed as a man to help convince young man to join the army, and was the best recruiting officer
• 200,000 men volunteered in the first week of September 1914
• F.A.N.Y.


  First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
• Evelyn Hatherfield


  Suffragette Veteran
• Queen Mary


  Started knitting many clothes, which caught on and many women workers began making clothes too. However there were too many so she got the government to fund many jobs for unemployed women
• 6,000,000 total, 2,000,000 shells had been delivered to the frontline by May 1915
• 30,000 women marched in the 'Right to Serve' event
• 76,000,000 shells were made in 1917
• Munitions shifts


  12 hour shifts
• 'Canary Girls'


  Munitions workers had a yellow tinge to their skin due to the chemicals
• 109 Munitions workers died in WW1
• W.P.S.


  Women police service