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What was the Virginia House of Burgesses?
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What was the Virginia House of Burgesses?

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The first representative body in colonial, which allowed male landowners a say in colonial government
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The Virginia house of Burgesses was the legislative assembly, it was made up of the governor of Virginia, his council, and 22 Burgesses representing 11 settlements.
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