SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE 13 COLONIES LIFE IN EARLY AMERICA
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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colonial attempts to build a strong national government
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steps in the growth of representative democracy
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efforts by the British to strengthen their control over the colonies
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early social reform movements
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Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is C) steps in the grow of representative democracy. In the colonial era, developments such as the New England town meetings and the establishment of the Virginia House of Burgesses represented steps in the grow of representative democracy.
Detailed explanation-2: -Virginia House of Burgesses, Town Hall Meetings and Mayflower Compact are the first forms of representative government/ democracy. Only elected representatives can levy taxes or make other decisions for the colonists.
Detailed explanation-3: -The House of Burgesses was important because it was the first legislative and democratic government in America. The House of Burgesses played a very important role in the American Revolutionary War, as well as in the creation of an organized, democratic government for the newly created America.
Detailed explanation-4: -These conventions were essentially meetings of the House of Burgesses without the governor and Council. They paved the way for the First Continental Congress and, more broadly, for the revolution in Virginia, creating an army and, in June 1776, adopting a new constitution for the independent Commonwealth of Virginia.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Mayflower Compact was important because it was the first document to establish self-government in the New World.