How the violent tactics of the suffragettes hindered their chances?

Answer 1

the suffragettes resorted to violence when a many of the suffragists the peaceful non violent group who were campaigning for the vote got fed up of being poorly treated and not getting the vote. Suffragists would write letters and the ones who turned to being suffragettes felt this wasn't enough and violence was needed to get their point across.

Answer 2

Why did the suffragettes protest?

The reason that the suffragettes protested was down to the voting system in 1897. Before the first of a series of suffrage reforms in 1832, only 3% of the adult male population were qualified to vote. Even then, only the rich were allowed, this was because getting the right to vote depended on how much land and property you owned. In these days all the women's possessions would become the husband's or father's possessions, this meant that the women were poor in a sense of not owning anything (plus the fact that the hierarchy in the 1800s was biased, women were thought to be below men in all standards,) and therefore not having the right to vote.

The suffragettes and suffragists thought that this notion was completely wrong and that men and women should have equal rights to vote, as many women were become much better educated and deserved to be treated well. The government at this time did not want this to happen and so the suffragists started a campaign group in 1897, Millicent Fawcett founded the National Union of Women's Suffrage but she believed in peaceful protest and so progress was slow.

Then in 1903 the Women's Social and Political Union was founded by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia. They wanted women to have the right to vote and they were not prepared to wait. These were the more brazen protesters and were called the suffragettes.