Lesson Y8-U05-L05

Y8-U05-L05 Did Women Get the Vote Because of WW1 Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 11

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Lesson Y8-U05-L05, Did Women Get the Vote Because of WW1: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 History (National Curriculum), Unit 11: Year 8: Suffrage, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What is 'causation' in history?

    • Working out why something happened, which means its reasons or causes
    • Choosing the best sources to use when writing an essay about the past
    • Writing down the exact date on which an event took place
    • Deciding which event in history was the most important and should be remembered

  2. What were 'munitions'?

    • Food and clothing sent to soldiers who were serving abroad
    • Medical supplies and bandages sent to the hospitals near the front
    • Fuel and coal used to heat the homes of families in the cities
    • Weapons and ammunition made in factories for the war

  3. What is a 'property qualification'?

    • A rule that all voters must belong to a trade union or a church
    • A rule that voters must be born in the same town as their MP
    • A rule that you must own or rent property of a set value to vote
    • A rule that every voter must have passed a test in reading and writing

  4. By 1914, how long had the campaign for votes for women been running?

    • About 10 years
    • Nearly 50 years
    • About 100 years
    • About 20 years

  5. About how many women worked in munitions during the First World War?

    • About 90,000
    • About 9 million
    • About 900,000
    • About 9,000

  6. What did the WSPU do when war broke out in August 1914?

    • It increased its militant campaign and attacked the government's offices
    • It left the country and joined the war in Europe as soldiers
    • It suspended its militant campaign and supported the war effort
    • It published a demand for an immediate end to the war and a vote for men

  7. Why did Parliament have to change the law for men after the war?

    • Soldiers who had fought abroad had lost their voting rights under the old residence rules
    • Men had demanded that the property rules should be changed in the 1900s
    • Men had asked to be allowed to vote in the colonies overseas, where the residence rules never applied
    • Men were not allowed to vote unless they had served in the war, and had to pass a reading test at the polls

  8. Which politician, once an opponent of votes for women, said women had 'earned' a say?

    • Emmeline Pankhurst
    • Millicent Fawcett
    • Coventry Patmore
    • Herbert Asquith

  9. Who replaced Asquith as Prime Minister in December 1916?

    • David Lloyd George
    • Millicent Fawcett
    • Emmeline Pankhurst
    • King Edward VII

  10. Which countries gave women the vote before Britain?

    • Canada in 1960 and Japan in 1990
    • The United States in 1700 and India in 1800
    • France in 1789 and Germany in 1848
    • New Zealand in 1893 and Australia in 1902

  11. From which decade could women vote and stand in local council elections in Britain?

    • The 1830s
    • The 1950s
    • The 1890s
    • The 1900s

  12. What did the Representation of the People Act of 1918 give to women over 30?

    • A pension paid by the government to all women who had worked in munitions
    • The vote, with no conditions attached, for every woman in the country
    • A seat in the House of Commons as a Member of Parliament
    • The vote, if they or their husband met a property qualification

  13. Which group of women did the 1918 Act exclude from voting?

    • All women under 30
    • All women who worked in munitions factories
    • All women over 60
    • All women who lived in London

  14. Roughly how many women gained the vote under the 1918 Act?

    • About 84 million
    • About 840,000
    • About 8.4 million
    • About 8.4 thousand

  15. Why is the 1918 Act described as having an 'odd result'?

    • The women who did most of the war work were mostly too young to get the vote
    • The Act gave the vote to men under 21 but not to any men over 21
    • The Act gave the vote to women in the countryside but not in the cities
    • The Act gave the vote to the women who did no work at all during the war

  16. What did the Equal Franchise Act of 1928 give to women?

    • A pension for women who had worked in factories during the war
    • The vote for all women under 30, as a reward for war work
    • The vote for all women over 21, on the same terms as men
    • A seat in the House of Lords for every woman over 30

  17. About how long after the First World War did the Equal Franchise Act of 1928 come?

    • About one year
    • About thirty years
    • About ten years
    • About three years

  18. Which statement best explains the role of the First World War in women getting the vote?

    • The 50-year campaign created the demand for the vote, and the war gave the opportunity
    • The war had no effect on the vote, which was passed for other reasons in 1918
    • The war created the demand for the vote and the campaign was not needed at all
    • The war made women so unpopular that they were given the vote to keep them quiet

  19. A historian says the war was the main cause of women getting the vote. Which fact best challenges this view?

    • Munitions workers were paid a fair wage for the war work they did
    • The war ended in 1918 with a victory for Britain and its allies in Europe
    • Full equality came in 1928, ten years after the war, through peaceful campaigning
    • The WSPU suspended its militancy in August 1914 to support the war

  20. Which of these is a long-term cause of women's suffrage that did not depend on the war?

    • Women could already vote and stand in local elections from the 1890s
    • The WSPU suspended its militancy in August 1914 to support the war
    • Lloyd George became Prime Minister in December 1916
    • Women worked in munitions factories for the war effort after 1914

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