SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE 13 COLONIES LIFE IN EARLY AMERICA
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the assembly served as a model for other colonial legislatures
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colonists used the assembly to overrule decisions of the royal governor
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the assembly sent delegates to Parliament to represent Virginia
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the king revoked Virginia’s charter because the assembly became too powerful
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which statement explains the significance of this colonial institution? The assembly served as a model for other colonial legislatures. Colonists used the assembly to overrule decisions of the royal governor.
Detailed explanation-2: -The House of Burgesses was important because it was the first legislative and democratic government in America.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which statement best explains the significance of the signing of the Mayflower Compact? 1620-The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony.
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 House of Burgesses set a model of the first democratic government with a limited royal authority. It gave the colonists an idea of having its own government and being freed from the English.