SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE 13 COLONIES LIFE IN EARLY AMERICA
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where church services were held.
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the first law making assembly in America.
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where the King of England lived.
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the first building built in Jamestown.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1619, 22 burgesses and Governor George Yeardley took part in the first legislative assembly of the American colonies. Their creation of the House of Burgesses later inspired the American Revolution and the subsequent creation of the United States.
Detailed explanation-2: -With its origin in the first meeting of the Virginia General Assembly at Jamestown in July 1619, the House of Burgesses was the first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies.
Detailed explanation-3: -It established that immigrants who paid their own way to Virginia would receive fifty acres of land and not be mere tenants. The civil authority would control the military. In 1619, based on the instructions, Governor Yeardley initiated the election of 22 burgesses by the settlements and Jamestown.
Detailed explanation-4: -Definition. The House of Burgesses (1619-1776 CE) was the first English representative government in North America, established in July 1619 CE, for the purpose of passing laws and maintaining order in the Jamestown Colony of Virginia and the other settlements that had grown up around it.
Detailed explanation-5: -The House of Burgesses was important because it was the first legislative body in British North America and because it became a representation of the struggle between the crown and the colonists’ desire for self-governance.