House of Burgesses
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burgess was defined as a freeman and is also given as "citizen", defined at the time as a white male landowner over the age of 21 participation in the assembly was limited to English male property owners, but when Polish artisans and craftsmen learned of this, they went on strike and refused to work
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- burgess was defined as a freeman and is also given as "citizen", defined at the time as a white male landowner over the age of 21
- participation in the assembly was limited to English male property owners, but when Polish artisans and craftsmen learned of this, they went on strike and refused to work until they were given full rights in participatory government.
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