Who Were They?

The suffragettes were a group of women who campaigned for women to have a right to vote in elections. Some ladies handcuffed them self to the houses of Parliament's but ended up behind bars. Finally the suffragettes wish was granted and now thanks to the suffragettes women now are able to take part in the elections. They were a group of women in the early 1900s that campaigned for women’s rights in Britain. 

What was their purpose?

The suffragette’s purpose was to have the right to vote but the government did not allow it. The suffragettes meaning was first used to describe women campaigning for the right to vote in an article in a British newspaper in 1906. During the time of the Falling Angle, only two-third of the male population could vote but the rest such as the criminal, servants and the people that do not have a property could not vote. Although British women and men had been arguing for both universal and women’s suffrage since the 1860s, the movement for women’s votes accelerated when Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia founded the Women’s Social and Political Union in 1903.

What did they do?

The suffragettes had begun to get bigger and bigger because more and more women started to join. Because the suffragettes had more women they have started to go around the city riding in a carriage putting up posters, wearing their national suffragettes clothing’s. The suffragettes have also started to get more violent when the weeks and months had passed by. They started to destroy windows, burning down houses, churches and the entire see when they pass it by just to get the rights. Now the suffragettes being violent started in 1909 when they got fed up by being fobbed by the men. Also the suffragettes resorted to violence when a many of the suffragists the peaceful nonviolent group who were campaigning for the vote got fed up of being poorly treated and not getting the vote. Suffragists would write letters and the ones who turned to being suffragettes felt this wasn’t enough and violence was needed to get their point across. During the war between France and Britain, The suffragettes had stopped their act of violence and wanted to help the government in working or replacing for the men that went off to fight.

The Suffragettes Protest

The suffragettes protested violently by smashing windows, spitting at policemen when they got arrested, having big marches, chaining themselves to railings, arson etc. Also hunger strikes, like sonic fan said aboutthe Cat and Mouse act, although i think he is getting mixed up with the suffragist’s. The suffragettes were definitely violent. Emmeline Pankhurst didn't throw herself under the king’s horse; she was the leader of the Suffragettes with her daughter Christabel. Emily Davison (arguably) threw herself under the Kings Horse but some people think it was an accident and she was trying to pin a rosette on it - she hadn't intended to die. Now that was a very tragic incident because Emily Davison was not a stupid women, but in fact she was a wise women, but when she went into the middle of the rail and got hit right in the head by the horse which was running in a very fast time. It was to be believed that she was trying to prove that the suffragettes have gotten more serious with their protest and with their winning by making the government to approve in letting them have the right to vote.

During Their Time in Prison

From 1905 until the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914 about 1000 women were sent to prison because of their suffragette activities. A dominant narrative of these experiences has emerged which asserts that the women themselves were to blame for their often harsh prison experiences, including the pain of hunger striking and forcible feeding. Because each of the suffragettes women refuse to eat even they do not care whether they die or not, the government cannot let the women continue their hunger so, the government has decided to use the cat and mouse act which using a tube and inserting it into their nose and feeding the women with water. Even though each women refused to drink or eat every one of them was tortured to be fed by the doctors, and nurses. When released, a medical examination revealed swelling and rawness in the genital region. The knowledge that new tubes were not always available and that used tubes may have been previously inflicted on diseased persons and the mentally ill or be dirty inside the tube, issues that had been openly discussed in Votes for Women, undoubtedly added to the feelings of abuse, dirtiness and indecency that the women felt.

The Suffragettes Got what they wanted

Now just as I said in the previous topic which I wrote above. The Suffragettes has finally got what they wanted for all this time which was again the right to vote. Why the government allowed it was simple and that was, because what the suffragettes did, since nearly all the men had gone out to fight the war between France and Britain. The suffragettes took their action to work by helping to take of each and every one of the stores that the men had been working at. The suffragettes did not want to make the shops close because the men were gone so they started to help. Because Britain won the war, the city has been the same, shops were never closed, and the people that were left behind got to buy supplies and items. All of this happened thanks to the suffragettes. Because the government is impressed after what the suffragettes has done to the city of Britain, they have decided to grant their wish which was again to have the right to vote. I think that creating the suffragettes was a great idea for the women because most women in this world were never given a chance to vote, they were not allowed to do anything that a man could do.

Other Protest movements

Besides the suffragettes, who in which were protesting for the rights to vote. There was one more protest movement that has been going at the same time when the war between Britain and France. The people who were protesting were called the luddites and they were more violent and more destructive because the people in the luddites were all angry workers that loss their jobs because of the government. Those workers had worked in factories which before the machines were put in they had to use hands and work hard to get money but now because the machines has taken almost all of he workers position. Those workers had no idea of what to do in the factory, So that leads to them all being fired. However during the war again between Britain and France, the luddites took their chances and started to break all of the machines in the factory, they all worked together to destroy all the machines. But the government had found out and they were having problems because they now have 2 problems, number  1the war and number 2 the luddites destroying machine. Because it was hard decision to make for the government, they have decided to send troops to capture and beat down the luddites. And so the troops had captured the workers and had beaten them all. Some of the workers were bruised, tortured, injured and lots more.