COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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forming an alliance with American Indian tribes
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creating the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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agreeing to the provisions of the Mayflower Compact
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establishing a government system with three branches
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Mayflower Compact was important because it was the first document to establish self-government in the New World.
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: -Thus, the Mayflower Compact was an agreement that bound the signers to obey the government and legal system established in Plymouth Colony.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.