What was Emmeline's primary tactic for suffrage activism?
Letter writing campaigns
Violent confrontations
Going door to door
Speeches and rallies
Answer
Emmeline Pankhurst was a British suffragette who used violent confrontations as her primary tactic to fight for women's right to vote. She believed that the only way to get the attention of the government was to disrupt public life and cause chaos. Her group, the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), was responsible for a number of high-profile acts of violence, including arson and bombings.
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