EMERGENCE OF USA
FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES
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The first legislative assembly of elected representatives in the American colonies.
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The first group of elected representatives to leave the colonies.
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The first house that was built in Jamestown, Virginia.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -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-4: -The House of Burgesses was important because it was the first legislative body in British North America and because it became a representation of the struggle between the crown and the colonists’ desire for self-governance.
Detailed explanation-5: -House of Burgesses, representative assembly in colonial Virginia, which was an outgrowth of the first elective governing body in a British overseas possession, the General Assembly of Virginia. The General Assembly was established by Gov. George Yeardley at Jamestown on July 30, 1619.