Emmeline Pankhurst and the Suffragette movement

Introduction

Browse the websites (see Credits) and discover more about Emmeline Pankhurst and the Suffragette movement.

Task

Answer the questions in your copybook.

Process

1-  Who were the suffragettes?

 

2- Who was Emmeline Pankhurst?

a) What was her nationality?

b) When was she born? When did she die?

c) What was her social background?

d) Why is she famous?

e) What was the WSPU?

f) When did British women obtain the right to vote?

g) What role did WWI play in the government's decision to grant women the right to vote?

 

3- Voting rights in Europe

a) What was the first European country to give equal voting rigths to women? When was it?

b) What was the last European country to give equal voting rights to women? When was it?

c) When did French women obtain the right to vote?

 

 

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