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 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-3: -The Mayflower Compact was signed aboard ship on November 21 [O.S. November 11], 1620. Signing the covenant were 41 of the ship’s 101 passengers; the Mayflower was anchored in Provincetown Harbor within the hook at the northern tip of Cape Cod.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.