USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The New England Town Meetings first began in the New England colonies at the beginning of the 1600s. Having travelled to America to pursue religious freedom, the Puritans quickly developed a method of town meeting with which to discuss and decide on community-specific matters.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The New England colonies were the northernmost of the colonies: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The other nine colonies were New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware (the Middle colonies) and Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia (the Southern colonies).

Detailed explanation-4: -Town meeting is a form of local government practiced in the U.S. region of New England since colonial times and in some western states since at least the late 19th century.

Detailed explanation-5: -The middle colonies used both county meetings and town meetings to make laws.