Multiple choice

The first representative government in Colonial America was____

  1. the Virginia House of Burgesses

  2. the Puritan Parliament

  3. the Massachusetts General Court

  4. the Connecticut Congress

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Explanation

The Virginia House of Burgesses, established in 1619, was the first democratically-elected legislative body in the American colonies. It set a critical precedent for representative government that other colonies would eventually follow.