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Suggested answers for the on-line questions are provided
below. To allow for differentiation, worksheets are provided at Standard Grade
Foundation / Access 3 levels.
Section 1
Source 1.A
1. Women wanted the vote according to Source 1.A because
· They
are working women
· Wanted to improve their home conditions
· Wanted sex
equality
2. Leaflet was produced to
· Campaign for women's
views during an election
· Explain why working women wanted the vote
·
To show the NUWSS point of view
3.Words and phrases highlighted
· To emphasise that working women wanted the vote
· To emphasise the benefits
the vote would bring e.g. old age pensions, improvements to marriage and divorce
laws, position of children
Source 1.B
1. Cartoon shows women
had few rights by
· Showing women bound and gagged
· Tape shows the rights
they did not have
- the vote
- equality before the law
- financial
control
- shows they were open to prejudice
2, Cartoonist suggests
getting the vote is most important
Shown by fact that this is the gag over
her mouth
3.Vote would enable women to:
- have equality before the
law
- fight prejudice
- change customs such as remaining at home
Source 2.A
1. Three peaceful methods of protest are
- giving a lecture
- petition to Parliament
- hold public meetings
source 2.B
1. Writer wanted Kirkwall Town Council to support petition / votes for women
2. Council responded by leaving the letter "on the table" i.e. they did nothing
/ left it open for discussion
3. Source is useful as evidence of methods
of suffragists as:
- contemporary source from time of suffragist campaign
for vote
- minute of council meeting so shows what council received and did
- records letter written by women's suffrage group
- shows peaceful methods
of persuasion
Source 2.C
1. two reasons for holding sale of work
are
- raise money
- show themselves to be as capable needlewomen, cooks,
dressmakers etc as women who remain at home
2. Donations requested were
- homemade jams, marmalades, children's clothes, cakes, pies, tarts, jellies,
sweets
3. Attraction of Holloway Cell is that Holloway a women's prison
, so would show that women were being subjected to unfair treatment
Source 3.a and 3.B
1. Sources show difference in methods of protest.
Source
3.A shows women peacefully distributing Suffragette newspaper
Source 3.B states
women destroyed glass case containing Wallace's sword / were arrested / caused
damage
Source 3.C
1. Source is valuable as evidence as
- it is
contemporary from time of suffragette protest
- official court document so
accurate record
- shows offences, witnesses, evidence, verdict and sentence
- shows aliases used by suffragettes
Source 3.D
1. Describes methods
of feeding by mentioning
- inserting catheter into stomach
- connecting
it with feeding funnel
- pouring warm water down tube
- introducing food
- pours more warm water
- pinches catheter and withdraws it from stomach
2. Foods are:
- thin custard
- mixture of milk and eggs
- broth
3. Process took 2-3 minutes
Source 3.E
1. Other name she was known
by are
- Ethel Moorhead
- Mary Humphreys
- Margaret Morrison
Used aliases to escape police attention / to ensure they were not caught
make it seem like more suffragettes were campaigning than actually were
2. On hunger strike 6 times. Was force fed - once for 5 days
3. Released
October 1913 under the Prisoners Temporary Discharge Act 1913 (Cat and Mouse Act)
4. Source is reliable as evidence because:
- primary source from time
when suffragettes being imprisoned
- official document to keep a record of
prisoners
- a register so purpose is to keep accurate record
- Detail
- gives dates, names, aliases, courts, where imprisoned, why released
Source 4.A
1. Author wants to weep because she sees women parading the streets
and demonstrating
2. Attitude of author to suffragettes is one of annoyance,
appalled, disagreement - she thinks women's place is in the home
3. Source
is useful because
- contemporary source from time of suffrage movement
- author an ordinary person / a mother
- letter to son showing private and
honest views
- tells us she does not like what they women are doing
Source 5.A and 5.B
1. Tells us that women
- were replacing men
-
working in dangerous jobs (munitions and fire fighting)
2. Women were
required to do these tasks because
- men were away fighting
- shortage
of labour
3. Source is valuable as evidence as
- contemporary sources
form time of First World War during which women given vote
- photos showing
what women did during war
- women working in munitions factories/ being trained
as fire fighters
- but only shows women working - does not state reasons why
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