"The suffragette campaign made it less likely that women would be given the vote." Do you agree with this statement? Use the sources pg58-68 and your own knowledge.

Have a little read: ... "The suffragette campaign made it less likely that women would be given the vote." Do you agree with this statement? Use the sources pg58-68 and your own knowledge. I think that the suffragette campaign made it more likely that women would be given the vote at the beginning of the campaign, but they went too far and made it slightly less likely by the end of the campaign, as I will explain in the following. Before the suffragette campaign was the suffragist campaign, these were peaceful protesters that staged meetings and mass rallies. However the men in the country were not taking much notice of the peaceful protesters, so the suffragettes decided to take what would have been seen as a far more radical approach to get the votes for women. Firstly the suffragette Edith New chained herself to the railings outside of 10 Downing Street and made speeches outside it, some suffragettes through stones through the windows as well. This sort of radical action made the general public realise that women were serious about getting the vote and were willing to go to prison so that their fellow women got the vote. The suffragette campaign gradually became more radical, soon the suffragettes that were in prison went on hunger strike, forcing the government into a dilemma. The government was in a lose lose situation, if the let the suffragettes starve themselves to death then they would become martyrs, which the government didn't want as this would create even more support for the suffragette cause if people saw that women were willing to die for their right to vote. So the government decided to force feed the suffragettes that refused to eat, this also gained a lot of support for the suffragettes and against the government because the force feeding was a breach of their human rights. The suffragettes gained a lot of support for their cause by their radical methods; this was because people had to take notice of the brick throwing because women had never had this kind of attitude towards something on such a large scale before. The suffragettes made it more likely that women would get the vote because the government had to realise that these women weren't going to sit back and not have the vote. This was shown in 1911 when the government promised a Conciliation Bill, and this bill gained all party support, it go the biggest majority ever. This