SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SETTLEMENT OF JAMESTOWN COLONY
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A hamburger.
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Economic success.
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The right to control and make decisions.
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A representative in the legislature of colonial Virginia or Maryland.
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Detailed explanation-1: -noun. American History. a representative in the popular branch of the colonial legislature of Virginia or Maryland. (formerly) a representative of a borough in the British Parliament.
Detailed explanation-2: -SUMMARY. The House of Burgesses was an assembly of elected representatives from Virginia that met from 1643 to 1776. This democratically elected legislative body was the first of its kind in English North America.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Virginia House of Burgesses and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut involved the elections of representatives to carry on government. Thus, they were examples of representative democracy, not direct democracy (A).
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: -In Jamestown, Virginia, the first elected legislative assembly in the New World-the House of Burgesses-convenes in the choir of the town’s church.