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Why it took so long for women to get the vote in Britain

The starter and exit quiz of the lesson “Why it took so long for women to get the vote in Britain”, from the unit “Women's suffrage: why did it take so long for women to get the vote in Britain?” (Year 9 History) by Oak National Academy.

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12 questions

  1. ___ is the right to vote.
  2. When war broke out in 1914, the suffragettes and suffragists suspended their ___ and joined the war effort.
  3. In what year did the WSPU organise a protest march called ‘the Right to Serve’?
  4. Despite being employed in the armed forces during WW1, women could not...
  5. The 1918 Representation of the People Act gave the vote to...
  6. In what year was the Equal Franchise Act passed?
  7. Which statement best describes attitudes towards the suffrage movement in the mid to late nineteenth century?
  8. Sexism was a __________ term factor that prevented women from obtaining the vote.
  9. The __________ government opposed the campaign for female suffrage for much of the early twentieth century.
  10. Asquith's decision to drop the 1910 Conciliation Bill was a ___ term cause of the delay to female suffrage.
  11. Which of these best describes the state of the women's suffrage movement in the early twentieth century?
  12. Which of these events was a turning point in attitudes towards female suffrage?

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