The first recorded modern election in which women voted was held in 1792. Where did it happen?
1. Canada 2. Revolutionary France 3. West Africa 4. Scotland A: Black Americans who joined the British during the Revolution to escape slavery were settled by Britain in Sierra Leone, West Africa. They voted for their local representatives, one “tithingman” for every ten households; each head of household got one vote. About a third of the households were headed by women, mostly widows. And the women voted. Five years later the second British governor of the colony officially disenfranchised women, hoping it would subdue the lively black political scene. In the next election the first two white tithingmen were elected. Alf Cheetham was his name, a British seaman of the early 20th century. He went to the Antarctic with Robert Scott in 1901, with Ernest Shackleton in 1907, Scott again in 1911, and with Shackleton on the Endurance in 1914. He was killed by a German torpedo in 1918. Lewis Carroll and John Tenniel, whom we always pair as author and illustrator of the two Alice books, had an
