The House of Burgesses was the first elected general assembly in the colonies, paving the way for the democratic society formed during the Revolution. After a general assembly was established in Virginia, other English colonies demanded their own elected bodies of government
The House of Burgesses was important because it was the first legislative and democratic government in America. The House of Burgesses played a very important role in the American Revolutionary War, as well as in the creation of an organized, democratic government for the newly created America
The 1825 anti-czarist Decembrist Revolt in Russia was led by "<span>a group of former army officers," since these officers felt that too much power was condensed in the Tzar, without any checks on his power. </span>