1 A half step (or ''semitone'') is the distance from one key on the keyboard to the next adjacent key. 2  Key 1 to Key 2 is a half step since they are next to each other. 3  A half step is not always from a white key to a black key.
The Virginia House of Burgesses established in 1619 is considered the first representative assembly (government) in the US and the Americas.
After 1 â¦ 625, the House of  Burgesses managed the affairs of the colony without the Governor.  Although not entirely democratic it contributed to the development  of representative government in colonial America. When it was  temporarily dissolved in 1774, its members met in the first  revolutionary convention in Virginia. There they elected delegates  to the First Continental Congress. Some members of the House became  leaders of the Revolutionary War.