To vote.
What does the suffragette-defaced penny reveal about life in England during that time period?
that the laws of the state only applied to women
that women were often breaking laws to make a point
that the penny was not considered a useful form of currency
that women wanted to change existing laws and gain the right to vote

D. that women wanted to change existing laws and gain the right to vote

Explanation:

just took it

The process of redefining the British political nation was a slow one. It began in the 1820s, and by the 1880s roughly 60 per cent of the male population had the right to vote - but no women. The campaign for women's suffrage had begun shortly after the Great Reform Act of 1832, but the battle only really got going at the start of the twentieth century, when the suffragette movement was born and with it a new level of female assertiveness, indeed violence. Here are the words of Dame Ethel Smyth, who composed the song 'March of the Women', which was a battle hymn of the suffragettes.

Explanation:

(B)The kids ran to the gates of the stadium.