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Q: Why do you think the Pilgrims bothered to write the Mayflower Compact?
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What was the name of the contract the pilgrims wrote to keep law and order in their colony?

Mayflower compact


What was the document called that was signed in 1620 by the pilgrims that listed their plans for self-government?

the first American government document to be signed in 1620 was the Mayflower compact!


What of these documents was signed by the Pilgrims in 1620?

The Pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact while still aboard the ship on November 11, 1620. This was the first governing document of the Plymouth Colony.


Why did the pilgrims think it was important to write the Mayflower Compact?

They needed a form of government and had to describe how that government would work.


A formal document signed by Pilgrims which set up a civil government?

The Mayflower Compact. (the name came from the name of the ship the Pilgrims had arrived. )


How do you think the Mayflower Compact later governments in America?

The mayflower compact made the colony more good by having a freedom from religion.


How do you think Mayflower Compact influenced later governers in America?

The mayflower compact made the colony more good by having a freedom from religion.


Where is the Mayflower Compact?

Plymouth in America what is now Massachusetts...I think


What is the name of the piligrim compact?

I think the document itself is called a charter but it is actually called the mayflower compact


What year did the pilgrims come on the Mayflower?

i think the pilgrams came in 1620


Do you think the ideas of the Mayflower Compact are still important to people today?

the silly


Would the writers of the Mayflower Compact agree with separation of church and state?

The signers of the mayflower compact of 1620 were brought up with worshipping God and didn't think of not living without the doctrine. I think they would have been appalled by it.