SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
MAYFLOWER COMPACT DEFINITION SUMMARY HISTORY
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explains why it is similar to the U.S. Constitution.
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discusses constitutions that came before it.
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explains why the colony could not survive.
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describes the men who wrote the document.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The similarity of the two documents is that both are based on the consent of the people they governed.
Detailed explanation-2: -The format of the Mayflower Compact is very similar to the written agreements used by the Pilgrims to establish their Separatist churches in England and Holland. Under these agreements the male adult members of each church decided how to worship God. They also elected their own ministers and other church officers.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mayflower, in American colonial history, the ship that carried the Pilgrims from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts, where they established the first permanent New England colony in 1620.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Mayflower Compact was not a constitution but rather an adaptation of a Puritan church covenant to a civil situation. Furthermore, as a provisional instrument adopted solely by the colonists, the document did not solve the matter of their questionable legal rights to the land they settled.