SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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being founded for economic opportunities, Maryland, Virginia, and created the House of Burgesses
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Shipbuilding and subsistence farming, Athenian Style Democracy
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New Jersey, South Carolina and religious freedom
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Anne Hutchinson, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Roger Williams
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Detailed explanation-1: -Settlers in the Southern colonies came to America to seek economic prosperity they could not find in Old England. The English countryside provided a grand existence of stately manors and high living. But rural England was full, and by law those great estates could only be passed on to the eldest son.
Detailed explanation-2: -The colonists drew upon their claims to traditional English rights and insisted on raising their own representative assemblies. Such was the case with the Virginia House of Burgesses, the first popularly elected legislative body in the New World.
Detailed explanation-3: -To bring order to the province, Governor George Yeardley created a one-house or unicameral General Assembly on July 30, 1619. This body of men was comprised of an appointed Governor and six Councilors, as well as 22 men called burgesses (a burgess was a freeman of a borough in England).
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.