COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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Mayflower Coontract
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Pilgrim’s Pride
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Plymouth Compact
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Mayflower Compact
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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-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-3: -The Mayflower Compact Was an Agreement to Bind Colonists Together. Back in England, the Separatists had signed a contract with the Virginia Company to establish a colony near the Hudson River, which at the time was part of Virginia.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -To quell the conflict and preserve unity, Pilgrim leaders (among them William Bradford and William Brewster) drafted the Mayflower Compact before going ashore.