In April, 1619, GOVERNOR GEORGE YEARDLEY arrived in Virginia from England and announced that the Virginia Company had voted to abolish martial law and create a legislative assembly. It became the House of Burgesses — the first legislative assembly in the American colonies. The first assembly met on July 30, 1619, in the church at Jamestown. Present were Governor Yeardley, Council, and 22 burgesses representing 11 plantations (or settlements) Burgesses were elected representatives. Only white men who owned a specific amount of property were eligible to vote for Burgesses.
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1. The Nineteenth Century
Electric power AC and the telephone gave place to the most important advances in years to come in the United States. Electric power AC together with the telephone became the cell phone predecessors. Those innovations boosted the economy and it is even hard to imagine the new era of communications without these two innovations. The United States has kept its first place as world power as a result. The automobile, though not fully developed until the Twentieth Century together with the telephone and electric power AC foresaw future developments that changed communication, commerce and relationships not only around the United States but across the world.
2. The Twentieth Century
Computers, together with internet have changed the way the world communicates today. Computers and internet have empowered the United States to maintain a leading position in the world by speeding up communication and spreading knowledge and technology.
We cannot leave the airplane and antibiotics aside as they contributed greatly to the boosting of the national industry and the winning of war. Antibiotics have contributed greatly to public health.
