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Virginia was the first English colony in North America. It was also the first one to create an assembly in which people voted for their representatives. The Virginia assembly was called the House of Burgesses.
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the Pilgrims sailed from England on the Mayflower in search of religious freedom. They planned to go to the Virginia colony but instead ended up on the coast of Massachusetts. Because they were so far from Virginia, they had to set up their own government. Before they left the ship to go ashore, the adult men signed an agreement called the Mayflower Compact
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Thomas Hooker left the Massachusetts Bay Colony and helped found the Connecticut colony. He wanted to create a government that included a more diverse group of people and granted more rights than the one in Massachusetts.
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