USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Its authority was immediately exercised when John Carver, who had helped organize the expedition, was chosen as governor of the new colony. The Mayflower Compact was not a constitution but rather an adaptation of a Puritan church covenant to a civil situation.

Detailed explanation-2: -John Winthrop was the Pilgrim leader who organised the voyage.

Detailed explanation-3: -William Bradford, (born March 1590, Austerfield, Yorkshire, England-died May 9, 1657, Plymouth, Massachusetts [U.S.]), governor of the Plymouth colony for 30 years, who helped shape and stabilize the political institutions of the first permanent colony in New England.

Detailed explanation-4: -Aboard the Mayflower, by necessity, the Pilgrims and “Strangers” made a written agreement or compact among themselves. 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.