Answer: It was the first representative assembly in the colonies.
Step-by-step explanation:
The House of Burgesses in Virginia was a representative assembly in Virginia that modelled the British system and was meant to introduce laws for the colony. It had representatives from the colony's 11 settlements and as such was the first of its kind in the colonies.
Other colonies were able to base their representative assemblies on this model thus leading to more democracy in the colonies thereby paving the way for the democratic government that would take over after independence from the British.