Votes for women Lesson 32 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: the lesson at school .
0 Two hundred years ago in most countries only men who owned property could vote, and no women anywhere could vote in national elections, as if they could not decide important things. 1 Imagine your class voting on the school trip, but only the boys with a bike get a say: that was how elections worked, and many women and men set out to change it. 2 Suffragists campaigned peacefully with petitions and marches, while the suffragettes in Britain chose bolder deeds, chaining themselves to railings and going to prison, so that nobody could ignore the question. 4 Two hundred years ago in most countries only men with property could vote, and women could not vote in national elections anywhere. 5 In 1893 New Zealand became the first self-governing country where women could vote in national elections, after a huge petition led by Kate Sheppard. 6 Suffragists campaigned for votes for women with petitions, meetings and peaceful marches, and Millicent Fawcett led them in Britain. 7 The British suffragettes, led by Emmeline Pankhurst, used bolder actions such as chaining themselves to railings, breaking windows and going on hunger strike in prison. 8 Some people disliked the suffragettes' methods, but their actions made the question impossible to ignore. 9 The suffragettes' motto was Deeds not words, and their colours were purple, white and green. 10 During the First World War women worked in factories, drove ambulances and ran farms, and many people saw that women could do any job. 11 In 1918 many British women over 30 won the vote, and in 1928 all women over 21 could vote, the same as men. 12 In the USA women campaigned for decades, led by Susan B. 13 Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and in 1920 the 19th Amendment gave women the vote. 14 Many Black women in the American South were still stopped from voting until the 1960s. 15 Women could vote in Finland from 1906, in Norway from 1913, in France only from 1944, and in Switzerland's national elections only from 1971. 16 In 1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka became the world's first woman prime minister, and today women lead countries all over the world. 17 Voting lets people choose who makes the laws they must live by. ← previous Slavery and its abolitionnext → The First World War↑ back to History This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/32-votes-for-women/