USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Mayflower Compact-once called the “Plymouth Combination”-is the first constitution known to have been written in the New World. Drafted aboard the Mayflower before the Pilgrims from Holland and their fellow travelers landed in North America, it was signed on November 11, 1620, by the 41 men on the ship.

Detailed explanation-2: -The 1620 agreement (first called the Mayflower Compact in 1793) was a legal instrument that bound the Pilgrims together when they arrived in New England.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -Many of the passengers aboard the Mayflower were members of the Puritan sect who left England to avoid religious persecution. These Separatists (later referred to as Pilgrims) had obtained permission from the King of England to settle on land further south in America.