EMERGENCE OF USA
FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES
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Magna Carta
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U.S. Constitution
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Mayflower Compact
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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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. It remained active until 1691 when Plymouth Colony became part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Mayflower Compact 1620-The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -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.