The Suffragettes 2

Suffragette - a woman advocate of female suffrage.
The Suffragettes wanted the right for women to vote.
Suffragettes were members of women's organization movements in the late 19th and early 20th century, particularly in the United Kingdom and United States. Suffragist is a more general term for members of suffrage movements, whether basic or conservative, male or female.The term "suffragette" is particularly linked with activists in the British women's suffrage movement in the early 20th century, whose demonstrations included chaining themselves to railings and setting fire to mailbox contents. One woman, Emily Davison, died at the Epsom Derby. It is unsure what she was trying to achieve when she was run down by the King's horse. Many suffragettes were imprisoned in Holloway Prison in London, and were force-fed after going on hunger strike.In the United States, women over 21 were first allowed to vote in the territories of Wyoming from 1869 and in Utah from 1870, and with the sanction of the Nineteenth Amendment the suffrage was stretched to women across the United States in time for the 1920 presidential election. Women over 21 were allowed to vote in New Zealand from 1893, in Australia from 1894, and in Canada from 1919. Women in the UK were given the vote in 1918 if over 30 and meeting certain property conditions, and in 1928 suffrage was stretched to all women over the age of 21.

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