HIST 1082 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Status Symbol, Second Industrial Revolution, Mass Mobilization
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Video: suffragette emily davison killed 100th anniversary. Franchise a long-time right: wasn"t given, had to be taken. Peaceful protest: protest peacefully and they give you the vote not the case, people risked lives for right to vote, associated with violence. National laws restrict voting: each law chipped away at lack of voting rights that preexisted. 1832 reform act: property owning men. 1867 reform act: vote for urban workers over a certain age. 1872 secret ballot act: prior to this, who you worked for could see how you voted. 1884 reform act: right to vote for all men over the age of 25 all of these due to protests and uprising not because the government wants to give it slowly expanding. 1832 reform act: some women were able to vote before this if the husband died and she owned the land, this 1832 act took that right away.
