Britain 1900 - 1918

By MónicaTercero
  • May 22, 1013

    Emily Davidson died

    Was a suffragette .

  • Women's rights

    Women couldn’t vote in national elections,lgal rights weren’t equal.
    had a chance of an education or a professional job
  • Period: to

    The campaigne for the vote

    The Suffragists were moderate in their protests
    theSuffragettes were more direct
    After1912theprotests got more extreme

  • Poor people faced serious hardship5 Mar 1900

  • Charles Booth

    published Life and Labour of the People in London

  • The Conservative Government set up a Royal Commission to look at the Poor Law

  • Liberal Party won a landslide general election victory over the Conservatives

  • Liberal reforms after the General elections

    The Minority Report, combined with pressure from the general public, and the pressure from the Labour Party encouraged the Liberals to bring laws in that would deal with poverty

  • Free Medical Inspections

  • Children's Charter

  • Old Age Pensions Act

    People over 70 got the pensions

  • General elections

    The Minority Report, combined with pressure from the general public, and the pressure from the Labour Party encouraged the Liberals to bring laws in that would deal with poverty

  • The National Insurance Act

    Health Insurance and Unemployment benefit: Employers had to pay workers compensation for injuries and diseases it they had got them as a result of their work. It covered 6 million workers who hadn’t previously had any legal protection

  • Parliament act

    The Lords were no longer allowed to reject bills on financial issues. They could reject other bills twice –but the third time they’d automatically become law

  • the suffragettes’ campaign turn more extreme

  • Defence of The Realm Act 1914

  • Minimun wage

    Two million workers were covered by the trade boards and so had the security of a minimum wage

  • Britain declared war on Germany

  • Sir John French is repleaced

    Sir Douglas Haig replaced Sir John French as the British commander

  • Battle of Juttland

    The British lost 14 ships, and the Germans lost 11.theBritish ships were more severely damaged

  • Conscription begins

  • War ends

  • Versailles Treaty

  • Women's vote goes

    The vote didn’t go to all women over 21 until 1928, when women finally got equal voting rights