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[Row number] 233 [Grade] 4 [SOL] VS.3d [SOL Text] The student will demonstrate knowledge of the first permanent English settlement in America byd) identifying the importance of the Virginia Assembly (1619) as the first representative legislative body in English America; [Essential Knowledge] In 1619 the governor of Virginia called a meeting of the Virginia Assembly. This system of government included two citizen representatives (called “burgesses”) from each of the divisions of Virginia, the governor’s council, and the governor. (At that time, only adult men were considered citizens). By the 1640s, the burgesses became a separate legislative body called the Virginia House of Burgesses. It was the first elected legislative body in America. It became today’s General Assembly of Virginia. [Key Words] History Jamestown [Marking Period] MP3 [Subject] 
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