1. Why did Women Get the Vote?
... famous. Soon, because they were advocates to the women's suffrage, in 1906 they were nicknamed "suffragettes- by the Daily Mail Newspaper. Unfortunate for the women of Britain at that time, Herbert Asquith, a Liberal was the Prime Minister and was always against the idea of women having the vote. So the aim of Woman's Social and Political Union was to make the ... which came into office in 1915 contained several politicians who were in favour of women having the rights to vote. Asquith resigned in 1917 and was replaced by David Lloyd-George, who by this time was more sympathetic towards...
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- Grade Level: High School