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Do you agree with the view that in the years 1880-1903 reliance upon peaceful constitutional campaigning (source 5 lines 29-30) was a significant factor in the failure to achieve the enfranchisement of women?
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Emma Miller Do you agree with the view that in the years 1880-1903 reliance upon peaceful constitutional campaigning (source 5 lines 29-30) was a significant factor in the failure to achieve the enfranchisement of women? To a certain extent, the peaceful methods can be considered insufficient as there was little ground covered in those years. However, this could be due to other factors such as public and political opinion; it is not possible to solely blame the peaceful campaigning methods for the failure to achieve enfranchisement. Although the suffragists did make some strategic errors, which hindered their campaign, however there were also successes, which benefited the movement for future generations to come. In several ways, the period 1880-1903 proved to be a period of very advantageous change for women, though some developments made an indirect impact, which is hard to measure. For example, the introduction of the secret ballot in 1872 and...
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