Suffragists: wished to obtain the vote for women through peaceful means.
Suffragettes: members of the WSPU who fought to win British women the right to vote.
- Members chained themselves to raillings, held marches, ofught policemen, broke windows, slashed paintings, set fire to buildings and threw bombs for publicity.
- Emily Davison ran out in front of the King's horse and was killed.
- "Deeds not words".
- Weekly newspaper "Votes for Women".
- Purple = dignity. Green = living things. White = purity.
- November 1910 PM promised to give women vote, but election was called and plan abolished. 300 women protested and beaten up.
- From 1910, Suffragettes became more militant (violent).
- street lamps were broken, axe thrown at PM, painting Venus slashed.
- Sent to prison, went on hunger strikes.
- Cat and Mouse act: (1914) allowed hunger strikers to be released until health improved and then they would arrest them to complete their sentences.
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