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2. Q: The charters gave the Virginia Company the right to establish what?
A: A settlement in North America.

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4. Q: The first charter of the Virginia Company of London established companies to do what?
A: Begin colonies in the New World.

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6. Q: The charters extended what to the Virginia colonists?
A: English rights

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8. Q: In what year did the governor call the first meeting of the Virginia assembly?

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10. Q: As Jamestown grew, the system of government—
A: Evolved

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12. Q: The Virginia Assembly was important because it was—
A: The first representative legislative body in English America

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14. Q: What were citizens representatives called in the early Virginia?
A: Burgesses

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16. Q: The burgesses were from—
A: each of the divisions of Virginia

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18. Q: What included 2 burgesses, the governor’s council, and the governor?
A: The Virginia Assembly

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20. Q: Who were considered citizens in Jamestown?
A: Adult white men.

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22. Q: When did the burgesses became a separate legislative body, called the Virginia House of Burgesses?
A: The 1640s

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24. Q: What was the first elected legislative body in America?
A: Virginia House of Burgesses

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26. Q: The House of Burgesses was important because it gave colonists an opportunity to do what?
A: Control their own government.

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28. Q: The House of Burgesses eventually became what?
A: The General Assembly of Virginia

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30. Q: A leader of a colony or state is called the—
A: governor

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32. Q: A person chosen by a group and given the power to make decisions for its members is called a—
A: Representative