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Colonial-era New England town meetings and
the Virginia House of Burgesses were both
(1) early social reform movements
(2) attempts to build a strong national government
(3) steps in the growth of representative democracy
(4) efforts to regulate trade with Native American
Indians



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Colonial-era New England town meetings and the Virginia House of Burgesses were both "(3) steps in the growth of representative democracy" although sometimes futile.