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INTERACTIVE TOPIC · CHAPTER 3 — A LONG AND FAMOUS HISTORY

Votes for All: The Long Fight

A century-long fight from a tiny electorate to universal suffrage — and the parallel fight to end slavery. Order the victories, match the campaigners, and flip the fine print.

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STEP 1 · PRIME YOUR BRAIN

Before we start — have a guess

Two warm-up questions on the vote.

Women finally won the vote on exactly the same terms as men in…

The Chartists’ most famous demand was…

STEP 2 · THE PICTURE

A century of doors opening

🩸 1819 · Peterloo — reform demanded, bloodily refused 📜 1832–67 · reform acts widen the (male) vote ⛓️ 1833 · slavery abolished across the Empire 🟣 1918 · women over 30 win the vote ⚖️ 1928 · equal at last — then 18 in 1969

Two campaigns run side by side in this period: votes for the excluded, and freedom for the enslaved. Both were won in stages, never in one leap.

STEP 3 · LEARN BY DOING — 1 OF 2

Order the victories

Tap the events in order. Each correct tap reveals its year.

LEARN BY DOING — 2 OF 2

Match the campaigners

Tap a name, then tap their campaign.

THE FINE PRINT

Flip the details

Answer in your head first, then tap to check.

TAP TO REVEAL

What happened at Peterloo in 1819?

A peaceful crowd in Manchester demanding parliamentary reform was charged by cavalry; people were killed and injured — and reform became unstoppable.

TAP TO REVEAL

What did the 1918 act actually give women?

The vote — but only to women over 30 who met a property test. Full equality waited another ten years.

TAP TO REVEAL

Who was Nancy Astor?

In 1919 she became the first woman MP to actually take her seat in the House of Commons.

TAP TO REVEAL

Which Chartist dream do we use at every election?

The secret ballot — demanded in the 1830s, law by 1872, and how every UK vote is cast today.

STEP 4 · QUICKFIRE RECALL

True or false — no thinking time allowed

STEP 5 · MASTERY CHECK

Six real questions on this topic

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Question 1 · Chapter 3: History
What did the Great Reform Act of 1832 mainly do?
The 1832 Act swept away constituencies controlled by one family or with almost no voters, and gave the vote to more men in the growing industrial towns.
Question 2 · Chapter 3: History
What did the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 do?
The 1833 Act made slavery itself illegal across most of the British Empire, freeing hundreds of thousands of enslaved people in the colonies.
Question 3 · Chapter 3: History
The Reform Act of 1867 had which main effect on the right to vote?
The Reform Act of 1867 extended the franchise to male householders in the boroughs, so many working-class men in towns and cities gained the vote.
Question 4 · Chapter 3: History
Millicent Fawcett led the Suffragists of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. How did her movement campaign for the vote?
Millicent Fawcett's Suffragists campaigned peacefully and lawfully for decades, using petitions and persuasion — unlike the Suffragettes, who turned to militant tactics.
Question 5 · Chapter 3: History
Which TWO of these women were leading figures in the campaign for women's right to vote?
Choose TWO answers — select both to see the result
Millicent Fawcett led the Suffragists of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, who campaigned peacefully, and Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union, whose members became known as the Suffragettes. Florence Nightingale was famous for reforming the care of wounded soldiers, and Nancy Astor was the first woman MP to take her seat, in 1919 — a politician, not a leader of the votes campaign.
Question 6 · Chapter 3: History
The Equal Franchise Act of 1928 gave women the vote on the same terms as men, at the age of 21.
The Equal Franchise Act of 1928 finally put women on an equal voting footing with men at 21, a decade after some women first won the vote in 1918.

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STEP 6 · TEACH IT BACK

Say it in your own words

Trace how the vote widened from 1832 to 1928, naming the key acts and the two women’s campaigns. Say it out loud or write it down — then compare.

Reveal a model answer

The Great Reform Act of 1832, and further acts in 1867 and later, gradually extended the vote to more men, though the Chartists’ demand for all men took decades. Women campaigned through two movements: Fawcett’s peaceful Suffragists and the Pankhursts’ militant Suffragettes. After women’s war work in 1914–18, the 1918 act gave the vote to women over 30; the Equal Franchise Act of 1928 finally gave women the vote on the same terms as men.

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