The House of Burgesses of Virginia, established in 1619, was the A)first representative body of government in the American colonies. B) first government body to create a written constitution in North America. C)first venue in which colonists accused of crimes could be tried in front of a jury of their peers. D) first attempt by the British to implement their policy of mercantilism in the American colonies.

1.d 2.a c.!

the correct answer is d) he deserved the title after his leadership in the battle for independence.

agustin de iturbide was a mexican army general and politician. he to win the war of independence from spain. because of that win he was proclaimed emperor of mexico and crowned in 1822, his reign didn’t last long, in 1823 he abdicated and departed for europe, because of that he was declared a traitor and in 1824 he was executed by a firing squad.

the dissolution of the soviet union[a] occurred on december 26, 1991, officially granting self-governing independence to the republics of the soviet union. it was a result of the declaration number 142-н of the supreme soviet of the soviet union.[1] the declaration acknowledged the independence of the former soviet republics and created the commonwealth of independent states (cis), although five of the signatories ratified it much later or did not do so at all. on the previous day, december 25, soviet president mikhail gorbachev, the eighth and final leader of the soviet union, resigned, declared his office extinct, and handed over its powers – including control of the soviet nuclear missile launching codes – to russian president boris yeltsin. that evening at 7: 32 p.m., the soviet flag was lowered from the kremlin for the last time and replaced with the pre-revolutionary russian flag.[2]

previously, from august to december, all the individual republics, including russia itself, had either seceded from the union or at the very least denounced the treaty on the creation of the ussr. the week before formal dissolution, 11 republics signed the alma-ata protocol formally establishing the cis and declaring that the ussr had ceased to exist.[3][4] both the revolutions of 1989 and the dissolution of the ussr also marked the end of the cold war.

several of the former soviet republics have retained close links with the russian federation and formed multilateral organizations such as the commonwealth of independent states, eurasian economic community, the union state, the eurasian customs union, and the eurasian economic union to enhance economic and security cooperation. on the other hand, the baltic states have joined nato and th