In 1916, the first colonial legislature was founded and was called

on july 30, 1619 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.

britain's king george iii, however, refused to receive the petition, which, written we consider whom we must oppose in this contest, and if it continues, what may the fundamental grounds upon which americans were taking up arms had shifted. that king george refused to so much as receive the

an economic reason that the south needed a reconstruction plan is that plantations, factories, and other businesses were destroyed during the war.