Fill in the Blanks Emmeline PankhurstOnline version fill in the gaps by Елена Awramenko 1 interested Many education men which 1928 killed women protest in 1888 factory terrible dangerous Manchester school Women was society government influential published Emmeline Pankhurst Emmeline Pankhurst born in , in the north of England , 1858 . Back then British couldn ? t vote in elections , but could . Emmeline went to in Paris , France . As she grew up she became in politics and wanted to create a more equal for women and men . She wanted women to have the same rights as men , such as the right to an , the right to have a good job and , perhaps most importantly , the right to vote . In , the girls who worked at the Bryant and May match in London went on strike . They stopped working and asked the owner of the factory to improve their working conditions . They worked 14 hours a day and were fined for dropping matches on the floor . of the girls were ill because they worked with chemicals . Emmeline supported the strike . Emmeline formed The Women's Social and Political Union , also called the Suffragettes , in 1903 . The Suffragettes were a group who fought for women ? s rights , especially the right to vote . They a newspaper called Votes for Women sold 20 , 000 copies a week . The Suffragettes also held demonstrations , and they often broke the law by smashing windows or chaining themselves to fences to . In 1913 , a Suffragette called Emily Davison was when she threw herself under the king's horse at a famous horse race , as a protest because the government refused to give women the right to vote . In 1918 , the British gave women aged over 30 the right to vote , although men could vote when they were 21 . were finally allowed to vote at the same age as men shortly after Emmeline died on 14 June . Emmeline Pankhurst is sometimes described as one of the most people of the 20th century .
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