THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE FIRST GREAT AWAKENING RELIGIOUS REVIVAL AND AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
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A detailed frame of government.
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a complete constitution
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a business contract
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a foundation for self-government
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Mayflower Compact was a set of rules for self-governance established by the English settlers who traveled to the New World on the Mayflower. When Pilgrims and other settlers set out on the ship for America in 1620, they intended to lay anchor in northern Virginia.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Mayflower Compact-as it is known today-was signed by those 41 “true” Pilgrims on 11 November, 1620, and became the first governing document of Plymouth Colony.
Detailed explanation-4: -Thus, the Mayflower Compact was an agreement that bound the signers to obey the government and legal system established in Plymouth Colony. The Mayflower Compact remained in effect until Plymouth Colony became part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691.