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The House of Burgesses led to the growth of what form of government in colonial America?

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The first legislature anywhere in the English colonies in America was in Virginia. This was the House of Burgesses, and it first met on July 30, 1619, at a church in Jamestown. Its first order of business was to set a minimum price for the sale of tobacco
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Representative Democracies, otherwise known as Democratic Republics.
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