i need help with my history assignment please help!!!!!!!!?

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ok now heres what i have to do i have to make questions up one of them has to begin with account for and the other one has to begin with assess. the account for question is a one mark question and the asses one is a ten mark question. i don't need to answer these
here is my information its on womens voting rights and how they achieved it
In each colony of Australia, the British Parliament began establishing parliaments from 1855. This was so they could achieve a genuine group of people to make decisions and laws for the public but first they had to decide who was going to be allowed to vote and who wasn’t. In 1856 South Australia became the first colony to introduce Manhood suffrage to men over the age of 21, who were non-indigenous, who had lived in the colony for six months, and who had land that was worth a certain value. If you fitted this criterion you were able to vote.
When woman found out about this, they were outraged that men could vote and they couldn’t so they decided to form women’s suffrage campaigns. This happened in the last few decades of the 19th century. People referred to these women as ‘suffragettes’. The Victorian Women’s Suffrage Society was the first women’s organisation to campaign in 1884. This group was founded by Henrietta Dugdale and Annie Lowe. Near the end of the 1880’s, several suffrage groups had formed in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, and Brisbane. The United Council for Women’s Suffrage in 1894 brought together thirty-two suffragist organisations, making it the first ever national women’s suffrage group. Within this group they trained the women speakers how to educate the public about the rights a women should have like voting and to stand for parliament also they taught them how to address meetings. The suffrage groups held many petitions and marches. Magazines were published such as ‘Australian Woman’s Sphere’. They believed if they could create a big enough response, then the men could see that all they wanted was the right to vote but they weren’t the only ones who wanted to vote every women wanted to.
The suffragettes believed that they should be able to vote because they follow the same laws and rules which applied to men. They also believed that they should get to play a role when making the law because they had to pay taxes the same as men. They argued that the female point of view, represented caring and good qualities. This would provide essential community improvements, which would make sure that women children and the poor would be protected.
During the campaign for equal voting rights suffragettes came up against opposition who were both men and women. People argued that the women were unsuitable when it came to knowledge of politics and the economy. They also suggested that they were being controlled by their emotions which would prevent them from making intelligent decisions because of these statements the opposition still weren’t convinced that women should have the right to vote.
In 1894 a year after New Zealand became the first nation in the world to allow their adult women to vote. South Australia was the first colony in Australia to grant their female citizens, if they were over the age of 21, the right to vote and stand for election. Many men figured out that politics wouldn’t really change if women were allowed to vote because they didn’t want to organise the man’s world of politics. They only wanted to have a say in what government was nominated to ensure that the laws were fair.

please please help me i promise i will award you please its due this monday please
thanks lyshi :)
 
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