HOW DID WOMEN GET THE VOTE?

AIMS: To find out how women got the vote.

MUST: List the reasons why women got the vote.

SHOULD: Evaluate which reason was most effective in women getting the vote.

HW- 1000 Word essay on how women got the vote.

Due- Wednesday 8th November

Except the creators of this lesson

Starter: Battleships!HOW TO PLAY

•The class is spilt into Pairs

•Each person has a grid of where to shoot

•On each grid there are 2 battleships and 1 mine

•The opponent reads out the question for the desired spot the person wants to move to for example: G4 – Who was the leader of the suffragists

•If they get the question right you have not made the shot but if they get it wrong then you hit your desired spot.

•Two hits sinks a battleship

•The aim of the game is to blow up your opponents battleships

How did women achieve the right to VOTE

Watch a video! While watching the video you must take

down a minimum of 5 facts.

And then we will go over what you should have down.

Review

You should have caught: While men went to the trenches women

took up their jobs The ‘white feather’ strategy was created

by the Suffragettes By 1918 the women finally got the vote. Suffragists and Suffragettes abandoned

their campaigns to help the war effort.

Representation of the people act which was based in 1918

So women had to live in the country for six months before they could vote

How did they gain the vote?

The reason they gained the vote is because of their efforts 1913 temporary discharge act ‘Cat and Mouse Act’ allowed arrested women to be released from jail until they regained there strength.

By 1919 women were allowed jobs such as law and architecture.

1928 Representation of the People act women of the age 21+ could vote and were now on equal footing with men

By 1917 over 800,000 women worked in munitions industry.

Women went on hunger strike to get out of jail but were eventually force fed.

People were didn’t like the thought of women being ‘violated’