English colonists in the Americas introduced their own local form of representative government for the first time with

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The Virginia House of Burgesses, established in 1619, was the first representative assembly in the English colonies, and therefore the first local form of representative government. The Mayflower Compact was a governing agreement among the Pilgrims in Plymouth, but it did not establish a representative government. The Virginia joint-stock company was a business venture, not a form of government. The revocation of the Virginia charter and the victory in the Second Anglo-Powhatan War were both events that affected the governance of the Virginia colony, but did not introduce a new form of representative government.

English Colonists in the Americas Introduced Their Own Local Form