USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The meeting of the first General Assembly, which took place from July 30 through August 4, 1619, in the church in Jamestown, VA, formed the basis of today’s representative system of government in the United States of America.

Detailed explanation-2: -Though many of our ideas about representative government developed from the English model of Parliament, the American tradition of representative government actually began in Jamestown. The experience there would later influence the political development of other English colonies in the New World.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Roman Republic was the first known state in the Western world to have a representative government, despite taking the form of a direct government in the Roman assemblies.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the summer of 1619 two significant changes occurred in the colony that would have lasting influence. One was the company’s introduction of representative government to English America, which began on July 30 with the opening of the General Assembly.

Detailed explanation-5: -The first representative government in the New World was the House of Burgesses. This was the elected portion of the Virginian legislature within the British colony of Virginia at the time.