The Mayflower compact is a very important document in our history. Pilgrims wrote and used it. It was brought here with them. The English Bill of Rights was also as important. It made sure that people didn’t have too much power to abuse. It kept things from getting out of control with power. The Magna Carta is another very important document. It was brought to America years ago. It is now in our government still being used today. The Mayflower Compact was signed by 41 English colonists on November
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House of Burgesses America is a nation that gives its people freedoms and power through its government‚ but it did not come to be over night‚ it has been in the making for hundreds of years. There have been many factors that have made America what we know today. Initially the first Americans did not have an established government‚ they did not even have an assembly to represent the people. The first official Legislative assembly in the English colonies was the House of Burgesses (*history
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The introduction…………….….………………..……….2 The Mayflower Compact………...………....……3 The Voyage on the Mayflower..….…….….4 The Plymouth Colony…..……...…………..………5 The Conclusion…………………..……………………..……6 1 Introduction The pilgrims started out in England. Due to the religions in England‚ the pilgrims moved to the Netherlands to follow their own religions. ‘‘In September 1620‚ a merchant ship called the Mayflower set sail from Plymouth‚ a port on the southern coast
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2 09/2/13 Virginia House of Burgesses Virginia House of Burgesses was one of the foundations to our American government. Politically it created a form of governing that is still in some ways used today . Socially this political group changed the way people think how a community could be ran by officials. Also‚ the creation of this allowed religion to not be the major key point in governing Colonial America but the focus was more on the people. In 1619‚ two burgesses were assigned to one
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The Mayflower Compact was signed on November 11‚1620.The Mayflower carried not only the Pilgrims but a few other settlers as well. When it arrived at Cape Cod‚ several hundred miles north of its planned destination in Virginia owing to storms at sea‚ the passengers realized they were outside the bounds of the governmental authority they had contracted with in England.William Bradford‚ the Pilgrim leader‚ was alarmed to learn that some of the others felt no obligation to respect the rules of the Pilgrims
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Leiden in Holland before deciding in 1617 to emigrate to the New World. On 16 September 1620‚ having secured an essential patent from the London Company‚ 102 passengers began their historic sixty-five-day voyage aboard a single ship‚ the 180-ton Mayflower. They were headed for Virginia but got blown off course and instead decided to found their colony in Cape Cod in what would become the Massachusetts Bay Colony. They called the colony Plymouth after the harbor in England from which they departed
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When they made it to America they found "nothing‚" like no life‚ no civilization‚ and no animals‚ just flatland. They then signed "the Mayflower Compact‚" which stated that all will abide by the rules they assigned to them. It was signed by all the males‚ the females were not allowed to participate in anything that had to do with the government. The Mayflower Compact was signed on November twenty-first‚ 1620. They explored and found nothing until what is called "the first encounter beach‚" where their
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In 1620‚ they built a ship and called it the Mayflower‚ after this they finally set sail on their exploration. After their voyage‚ the Pilgrims found themselves in southern Massachusetts. After they settled in Massachusetts‚ they discovered they were outside the jurisdiction of the company; this concerned the new Pilgrims because might cause many problems among their colony. To resolve this problem‚ the leaders signed the Mayflower Compact‚ this agreement established a civil government under the
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orders through documents within their communities that would reshape and form their changing lifestyles. Two of the most famous of these documents are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut‚ written by pilgrims of Connecticut in 1639‚ and the Mayflower Compact‚ which was written by Plymouth settlers in 1620. In 1639‚ a group of pilgrims‚ being persecuted for their religious beliefs‚ left Massachusetts and sought out to colonize the area that is now Connecticut and build up a community essentially
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The Mayflower Compact was made back in 162o when some of the first settlers from Britain came to America and wanted to start a government. Certainly they were on the right track if some of their ideas still are in use today. The Mayflower Compact is centered around the idea of Self-Government. Self-Government means the government is run by the people and they have a say in it. The Mayflower Compact says‚ “... and one another‚ covenant and combine ourselves
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