5 CO LU N I ALL I H .IN A."lLRI CA.ipI"",,,,;,,,,p"ninCh"s.lp.."k.. Bar.
Governorsandassemblies
All th e Eng lish colon ies In America shared a
tradit i onof repr esent ative govern m..nt. This
mea n s thatin allofthemp eo ple had asayin ho w
th ey w er e gove rn ed. Eachcolo ny had its own
governmen t .At th e headofth isgovernmentwas
ago vernor,cho sen in mo stcasesbyth e English
k in g .T o rule effec tively, these govern ors de-
pen dedu po nth e cooperat ionofassemblieselected
byth e colo nists.
Inmo st of th e colo niesallwhitemaleswhoo w ne d
some land had the righttovote, Since som an y
colonistsownedland.this meantthat farmore
peo ple had thevoteinAmerica th an in England
itself-orinany otherEuropean countryatthis
rune.2J