People thought that the earth was the center of the universe and everything revolved around it, but people like Galileo disproved this and changed the way people understood the universe and was the one to say the earth revolves around the sun.
Well there is no sufferagettes act but the sufferagettes were made in 1903, that's all that can really help your question since their is no act called "the sufferagettes act", hope I helped in the least bit.
If i remember correctly, there was a certain canal that the british wanted control of.
Here this is an example, one word, Trump
The republicans believed it was a failure