SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FOUNDING OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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Magna Carta
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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Mayflower Compact
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House of Burgesses
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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: -Mayflower Compact 1620-The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Mayflower Compact was probably composed by William Brewster, who had a university education, and was signed by nearly all the adult male colonists, including two of the indentured servants.
Detailed explanation-4: -Mayflower Compact, document signed on the English ship Mayflower on November 21 [November 11, Old Style], 1620, prior to its landing at Plymouth, Massachusetts. It was the first framework of government written and enacted in the territory that is now the United States of America.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Mayflower Compact was the first government document to be signed in the land that became the United States. The Mayflower left England with a charter, or legal document, that gave its passengers the right to settle near the Hudson River, in what is now New York.