History forever changed after the successful British Suffragette movement won the vote for women | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

The UK Suffragettes were activists in the British WSPU (Women’s Social and Political Union), led by Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, seeking the right to vote for women through some nonviolent methods of protest such as hunger strikes, and other tactics that included pouring destructive chemicals into mailboxes, breaking windows at prestige buildings and night-time arson at…