EMERGENCE OF USA
FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES
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two-party system
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federalism
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representative government
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universal suffrage
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Detailed explanation-1: -Overall: People would elect representatives of their community to a general assembly, which made the laws. pilgrims wrote and signed describing how they would govern themselves in America. Significance – Provided a model for later development of representative government.
Detailed explanation-2: -1619: House of Burgesses (representative) Established in 1619, the House of Burgesses was the first representative assembly in colonial British North American.
Detailed explanation-3: -The colonies along the eastern coast of North America were formed under different types of charter, but most developed representative democratic governments to rule their territories.
Detailed explanation-4: -Though many of our ideas about representative government developed from the English model of Parliament, the American tradition of representative government actually began in Jamestown. The experience there would later influence the political development of other English colonies in the New World.