SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FOUNDING OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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to hold Puritan religious services
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to harvest all the crops to sell
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to take care of town government
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to teach children to read
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Detailed explanation-1: -Town meeting-the act of a group of individuals gathering together to make decisions-can be traced to the 1630s. Town meeting finds its roots in the earliest New England settlements, when towns people assembled to discuss and decide upon all matters that impacted the community.
Detailed explanation-2: -Town meetings are a particularly popular form of governmental administration in New England, where a town is a geographic unit, the equivalent of a civil township elsewhere. In New England, towns are granted powers that are granted only to counties elsewhere, as well as their ordinary municipal powers.
Detailed explanation-3: -While the uses and laws vary from state to state, the general form is for residents of the town or school district to gather once a year and act as a legislative body, voting on operating budgets, laws, and other matters for the community’s operation over the following 12 months.