THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
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Declaration of Independence
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Washington
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House of Burgesses
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English Bill of Rights
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Detailed explanation-1: -In April, 1619, Governor George Yeardley arrived in Virginia from England and announced that the Virginia Company had voted to abolish martial law and create a legislative assembly, known as the General Assembly-the first legislative assembly in the American colonies.
Detailed explanation-2: -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: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -The first colonial legislature was the Virginia House of Burgesses, established in 1619.