The Mayflower Compact was the principle ideal of the Pilgrims and was also the government set type for them and future generations. The Compact was written on the ship named Mayflower‚ hence the name Mayflower Compact‚ and all of the people aboard were bound to it. Furthermore‚ it was only the second government system to be established by the Europeans in North America‚ with only Jamestown being established beforehand. As a result of this‚ the Mayflower Compact has a big significance in American History
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Bryant History 101 21 June 2014 MAYFLOWER AND THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT Master Christopher Jones and several business partners purchased the ship Mayflower about 1607. Its origins prior to that remain uncertain. Its first documented voyage of record was to Trondheim‚ Norway‚ in 1609. Andrew Pawling hired the ship to take a cargo of London goods to Norway‚ sell them off‚ and buy Norway goods (lumber‚ tar‚ fish) to return back to England. Unfortunately on the return voyage‚ the Mayflower encountered
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Have you ever wondered what life would have been like without rules or laws? Did you ever stop and think what could have been had the mayflower compact not been made of signed? The Mayflower Compact may be one of the many important documents created and signed‚ even to this day. Being that it was one of the first documents actually stating the first set of rules and laws of society‚ it certainly helped shape our nation as a whole. It enabled the pilgrims to act as one and be loyal to one another
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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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to the establishment of documents and organizations that established self-government. The Mayflower Compact‚ The Virginia House of Burgesses‚ and The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut led to the foundation of self-government in the New World. The Mayflower Compact was written and signed on November 11‚ 1620 by the 41 male settlers (more commonly known as The Pilgrims) of Plymouth. Their ship‚ The Mayflower was blown off course on the way to Virginia and they ended up in Plymouth‚ Massachusetts. Due
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Analyze the text A. The Mayflower Compact explicitly says that the Pilgrims are going to come together for their safety and protection and make the 1st colony in North Virginia. They’re going to make equal laws‚ constitutions‚ and orders for the betterment of the people. They’re also going to appoint leaders‚ who they will replace‚ “from time to time”. B. The use of careful diction in the Mayflower Compact suggests that the Pilgrims were serious about what they were doing‚ and they wanted others
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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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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 for the New World. Since the new location for their colony was outside the areas claimed by the two chartered joint-stock companies‚ they considered themselves
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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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search of "a better life." The Pilgrims separated from The Church of England because the church was too strict. They were told that they had to go to the church the government picked. This form of dictatorship was called "State Church." If one went against the states church they would have been arrested and thrown in jail. They were then tortured in an effort to make them changed their beliefs. If this was unsuccessful‚ they were put to death in very painful ways such as being hung‚ burned‚ or death
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