The Suffragettes

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  • Women over 20 get the vote in the U.K

  • Woman's Suffrage Movement

  • Suffrage granting 30yr old and over U.K woman who are house holders.

  • USA lets the right to vote to woman

  • Kate Sheppards Presents a petition to parliament.

    The petition was 270m long and was signed by 27,000 people including 32,000 woman.

  • Right to vote is granted to NZ

  • Millicent Fawcett founding the NUWSS

    Millicent Fawcett founding the NUWSS

  • Emmeline Pankhurst and Daughters founded the WSPU

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    Emmeline Pankhurst is arrested 3 times.

  • The Suffragettes go on a hunger strike.

  • Cat and Mouse Act in the U.K is used by the Suffragettes.

  • Emily Wilding Davison Throws herself under the King's Horse during the derby in the U.K. She died 4 days later.

  • Nancy Astor is the first female member of Parliament in the U.K

  • Many woman enter the labour force

  • 20th Century