SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
COLONIES OF FRANCE ENGLAND
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The Pilgrims agreed that anyone who wanted religious freedom was welcome to live in their colony
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It was an agreement between the people of the Plymouth Colony. They agreed to make fair laws and everyone in the colony would be expected to obey the laws
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It was a declaration of freedom. The colony would no longer be ruled by Britain.
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It was an agreement of peace between the Indians and pilgrims
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Mayflower Compact was important because it was the first document to establish self-government in the New World. It remained active until 1691 when Plymouth Colony became part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Detailed explanation-2: -It simply bound the signers into a “Civil Body Politic” for the purpose of passing “just and equal Laws . . . for the general good of the Colony.” But those few words expressed the idea of self-government for the first time in the New World.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Mayflower Compact Was an Agreement to Bind Colonists Together. Back in England, the Separatists had signed a contract with the Virginia Company to establish a colony near the Hudson River, which at the time was part of Virginia.