RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
WOMENS SUFFRAGE
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to discourage people from supporting women’s right to vote
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to get more people to support women’s right to vote
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to show that women are physically strong
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to help more women realize they can be politically active
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Detailed explanation-1: -In both Great Britain and North America, the immediate motivation for suffragists to embark on hunger strikes was the demand to be considered a political prisoner. Political prisoners had more rights than other prisoners and were not considered merely criminals.
Detailed explanation-2: -Lobbying. The suffragists believed in achieving change through parliamentary means and used lobbying techniques to persuade Members of Parliament sympathetic to their cause to raise the issue of women’s suffrage in debate on the floor of the House.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hunger striking was an important propaganda tool for imprisoned suffragettes. Winson Green prison, Birmingham, was one of the first prisons in the country to practise force feeding. Hunger strikes were carried out by imprisoned suffragettes because they were not given the status of political prisoners.
Detailed explanation-4: -A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance in which participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke a feeling of guilt in others, usually with the objective to achieve a specific goal, such as a policy change. Most hunger strikers will take liquids but not solid food.
Detailed explanation-5: -Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) became involved in women’s suffrage in 1880. She was a founding member of the WSPU in 1903 and led it until it disbanded in 1918. Under her leadership the WSPU was a highly organised group and like other members she was imprisoned and went on hunger strike protests.