SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
MAYFLOWER COMPACT DEFINITION SUMMARY HISTORY
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There were many different versions of the Mayflower Compact, so the Pilgrims combined all the versions together.
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The Pilgrims felt that having everyone follow the same just laws would help them work together.
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After they landed, the Pilgrims had a lot of trouble following the laws they agreed to.
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There were 50 men on aboard, but only 41 men worked on creating the compact.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The fate of the Mayflower remains unknown. However, some historians argue that it was scrapped for its timber, then used to construct a barn in Jordans, England. In 1957 a replica of the original ship was built in England and sailed to Massachusetts in 53 days.
Detailed explanation-2: -Things the Pilgrims Brought on the Mayflower Biscuit, beer, salt, (dried) beef, salt pork, oats, peas, wheat, butter, sweet oil, mustard seed, ling or cod fish, “good cheese", vinegar, aqua-vitae, rice, bacon, cider.
Detailed explanation-3: -The pilgrims of the Mayflower were a group of around 100 people seeking religious freedom from the Church of England. However, pilgrims were not the only passengers on the Mayflower. Other Mayflower passengers included servants, contracted workers, and families seeking a new life in America.
Detailed explanation-4: -The rest of the Mayflower Compact is very short. 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.