Year 9 Knowledge Organiser: The Birth of Democracy

in Britain
Key Events Key Words
1 1897 NUWSS formed. Millicent Fawcett is leader. 10
Chartists
2 1903 WSPU is formed by Emmeline Pankhurst and daughters.
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1832 Reform Act
3 1905 Militant Campaign begins – Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney arrested
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Constitutional
4 1908 Mass rally in London – 300,000 to 500,000 activists attend. Window smashing using
stones with written pleas on them.
13 Enfranchisement
5 1909 Hunger strike and force feeding starts – Marian Wallace Dunlop becomes the first
hunger striker. 14
Democracy
6 1913 Militant bomb and arson campaigns and increasing arrests which results in the
passing of the “Cat and Mouse” Act, under which hunger strikers are temporarily
released then rearrested to prevent them dying in police custody 15
Polling booth
7 1913 Emily Wilding Davison attempts to pin a Suffragette scarf onto the King’s Horse at the
Derby. She is struck by the horse and dies 4 days later. 16
Manifesto
8 1914 World War 1 starts – Suffragette leaders urge women to join the war effort. NUWSS
continues to campaign for recognition for their work. 17
Militant
9 1918 The Representation of the People Act is passed, allowing men over 21 and women
over 30 to vote. 18
NUWSS

Key People 19 Franchise

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Petition

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Propaganda

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Emmeline Pankhurst – Christabel Pankhurst - Emily Wilding Davison Millicent Fawcett -
WSPU WSPU - WSPU NUWSS Representation
of the People Act

Led the WSPU from Became a speaker for Joined WSPU in 1906. Leading suffragist
October 1903. Took the WSPU in 1905. She 3 years later, left job and led NUWSS 23 Suffrage
more militant action trained as a lawyer but as a teacher and from 1897-1919.
such as windows could not practice as became a suffragette Played a key role in 24
smashing, arson and woman. Arrested with full time. Frequently getting women the Suffragette
hunger strikes. her mother. Fled arrested for number vote. Dedicated to
Arrested numerous England in 1912 for fear of crimes inc. setting using constitutional 25
times, went on hunger of being arrested again. fire to post box. By means, and argued Suffragist
strike and was force fed. Unsuccessfully ran for 1911, become that militancy was
Died in 1928. Parliament in 1918. increasingly militant. counter-productive. 26
WSPU