11.5.20 SOCIAL SCIENCE UNIVERSAL ADULT FRANCHISE 7SS time –11.50 -12.

40 PM

Universal suffrage (also called universal franchise, general suffrage, and

common suffrage of the common man) gives the right to vote to all adult citizens,
regardless of wealth, income, gender, social status, race, ethnicity, or any other restriction,
subject only to relatively minor exceptions.

Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise is the right to vote in public, political

elections

Universal suffrage consists of the right to vote without restriction due to sex, race, social status,
education level, or wealth. It typically does not extend the right to vote to all residents of a region;
distinctions are frequently made in regard to citizenship, age, and occasionally mental capacity or
criminal convictions.

Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Beginning in the mid-19th century,

aside from the work being done by women for broad-based economic and political equality and
for social reforms, women sought to change voting laws to allow them to vote.

IN MANY COUNTRIES ,WOMEN WAS NOT ALLOWED TO VOTE . , WOMEN FROM DIFFERENT PARTS OF
THE WORLD PROTESTED IN DIFFERENT WAYS ..

. PEACE FUL MANNER – LIKE SLOGANS , RALLIES, THESE WOMEN WHO ADOPTED THESE MEASURE
ARE CALLED SUFFRAGIST

WOMEN WHO ADOPTED VIOLENT METHOD TO PERSUE GOVERNMENT LIKE THOWING STONES,
FIGHTING , BREAKING GOVERNMENT OFFICES , THINGS ARE CALLED SUFFRAGETTE.

IN INDIA , VOTING IS DONE THRIOUGH UNIVERSAL ADULT FRANCHISE ..ALL CITIZENS OF INDIA WHO
ATTAIN THE AGE 0F 18 ARE ALLOWED TO VOTE WHEN ANY ELECTIONS ARE HELD IN INDIA GENERAL
ELECTIONS AND STATE ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS.

DEFINE THE FOLLOWING TERMS –

1. UNIVERSAL ADULT FRANCHISE

2. SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
3. SUFFRAGIST
4. . SUFFRAGETTES
5. NAME THE METHOD INDIA FOLLOWS OF VOTING.