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	Mayflower Compact - MSN Encarta
		Mayflower Compact, first colonial agreement that formed a government by the consent of the governed.
		The Mayflower Compact was signed in 1620 by Pilgrims, English people hoping to establish a settlement in North America.
		The compact gave the settlers the power to frame and enact laws for the general good of the planned settlement.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761591226/Mayflower_Compact.html (190 words)

	Mayflower Compact - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		MAYFLOWER COMPACT [Mayflower Compact] in U.S. colonial history, an agreement providing for the temporary government of Plymouth Colony.
		The compact was signed (1620) on board the Mayflower by the adult male passengers; it created the first American settlement that was based upon a social contract.
		The compact remained the basis of government in Plymouth for ten years, and all later governments in the colony developed out of the compact.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-mayflowec.html (258 words)

	compact.html
		The Mayflower Compact was signed on 11 November 1620 on board the Mayflower which was at anchor in Provincetown Harbor.
		In reality, the Mayflower Compact was superseded in authority by the 1621 Peirce Patent, which not only gave the Pilgrims the right to self-government at Plymouth, but had the significant advantage of being authorized by the King of England.
		The Mayflower Compact was first published in 1622 in Mourt's Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth.
	members.aol.com /calebj/compact.html (745 words)

	The Mayflower, The Journey, Compact and Thanksgiving
		You'll find out about the Mayflower Compact (said to be the foundation of the American Constitution), the journey of the Mayflower, the ship, itself and what the Pilgrim Fathers achieved.
		Mayflower Centre is well worth a visit for both static and interactive media displays.
		This is Mike Haywoood's latest painting of the Mayflower at dawn on the 11th November 1620, as she is about to anchor for the first time after her arduous voyage in what is now called Provincetown harbor.
	www.mayflowersteps.co.uk /mayflower_index.html (726 words)

	Mayflower Compact - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		The Mayflower Compact was signed in 1620 by...
		Colonial charters such as the Mayflower Compact of 1620 provided another inspiration for the Constitution.
		The Mayflower Compact was the first governmental agreement written by colonists in the New World.
	encarta.msn.com /Mayflower_Compact.html (102 words)

	The Mayflower Compact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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.
		The format of the Mayflower Compact is very similar to the written agreements used by the Pilgrims to establish their Separatist churches in England and Holland.
		Immediately after agreeing to the Mayflower Compact, the signers elected John Carver (one of the Pilgrim leaders) as governor of their colony.
	home.earthlink.net /~jkash2/mayflower.html (1127 words)

	The Society of Mayflower Descendants - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The original name of "The New England Society of Mayflower Descendants" was soon changed to "The Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Connecticut" as other New England societies became established.
		The General Society of Mayflower Descendants, founded in 1897, has provided a unity of purpose and headquarters in Plymouth, MA to bring together the members of the state societies and the Canadian Society as they have evolved.
		The principles established when the Mayflower Compact was written in 1620 exemplify the democratic form of government upon which our U.S. Constitution is based.
	www.ctmayflower.org /history.php (393 words)

	Mayflower Compact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Compact was signed in the cabin of the Mayflower, November 11th, Old Style, November 21st, New Style, 1620.
		Therefore, on November 21,1620, in the "Great Cabin" aboard the Mayflower, forty-one male passengers composed a written document, which was a vow, a pledge a word of honor that all who signed it, as well as their families promised to abide by its proclamation.
		It brought the divergent groups into one unified group, and the Compact remained as the Constitution of the Colony until Plymouth was merged into the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1692 by order of King William and Queen Mary.
	geocities.com /texasmayflower/compact.html (275 words)

	Utah Mayflower Society
		Widely considered as America's first constitution, the Mayflower Compact was signed on November 11, 1620 on board the Mayflower, as depicted in the Edward Percy Moran painting above.
		In making this compact, the Pilgrims drew upon two strong traditions, the concept of a social contract and their belief in religious covenants.
		The Mayflower Compact was to bind the Pilgrims to one another and the Pilgrims to their God.
	fp.xmission.com /~khagen/compact.htm (333 words)

	Learning to Give - Lesson Plan - The Mayflower Compact—Freedom Contract
		Students look at The Mayflower Compact and recognize that freedom to assemble and worship was the “Pilgrim's” main goal—worth all the opportunity costs.
		The journals should include their perspective on The Mayflower Compact, freedom and their hopes for a new “government” in the new world.
		Using The Mayflower Compact and the First Amendment as a model, ask families to write a compact, or agreement, at home that will ensure the rights of all family members and that everyone can agree upon.
	www.learningtogive.org /lessons/unit170/lesson2.html (2169 words)

	The Mayflower II Ship at Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, Massachusetts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mayflower II is a reproduction of the type of ship that sailed from England in 1620.
		The details of the ship, from the solid oak timbers and tarred hemp rigging, to the wood and horn lanterns and hand-colored maps, have all been carefully recreated to give you a sense of what the original 17th-century vessel was like.
		Mayflower II was built from 1955-57 in the town of Brixham, in Devon, England by the skilled shipwrights at the Upham Shipyard.
	www.plimoth.org /visit/what/mayflower2.asp (2324 words)

	Learning to Give - Lesson Plan - Mayflower Compact Started It (The)
		This lesson will introduce the "Mayflower Compact." How it started the concept of designing documents to aid the common good is discussed along with the plight of the Pilgrims when they came to the new land.
		Read the Mayflower Compact aloud, paragraph by paragraph, making sure students understand the language and discussing the importance of what is being said.
		A picture that would demonstrate one concept found in the Mayflower Compact may be used as an alternate assessment.
	www.learningtogive.org /lessons/unit39/lesson2.html (1211 words)

	Mayflower Compact
		The Mayflower Compact (1620) - The Pilgrims, a branch of the Puritans, arrived off the coast of Massachusetts in November 1620,...
		The Mayflower - The Pilgrims'; progress was forwarded by this hearty English vessel Source: The Columbia...
		This Day in History: November 11 - November 11 1620 The Mayflower Compact was signed by Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/history/A0832350.html (198 words)

	The Mayflower Compact (1620) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Mayflower Compact is such a covenant in that the settlers agreed to form a government and be bound by its rules.
		The Compact is often described as America's first constitution, but it is not a constitution in the sense of being a fundamental framework of government.
		Its importance lies in the belief that government is a form of covenant, and that for government to be legitimate, it must derive from the consent of the governed.
	www.wealth4freedom.com /history/Mayflower_Compact.htm (457 words)

	Glimpses bulletin #179: Mayflower Compact
		Churchill called it "one of the most remarkable documents in history." The compact was modeled after a church covenant made earlier by a small group of nonconformist believers in Scrooby, England, who later took the pilgrim voyage on the Mayflower to America.
		Every man who signed the compact promised to obey the laws that would soon be made for their life together.
		The Mayflower Compact was a natural extension of the Pilgrim church covenant, and it served to hold the Pilgrim colony together in its first, hard days of life upon the wild New England shore.
	chi.gospelcom.net /GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps179.shtml (1740 words)

	The Mayflower Society: General Society of Mayflower Descendants
		Anyone who arrived in Plymouth on Mayflower and survived the initial hardships is now considered a Pilgrim with no distinction being made on the basis of their original purposes for making the voyage.
		The Mayflower Pilgrims and their fellow travelers were authors of the first true governing document created in a New World colony.
		The Mayflower Compact is considered to have set the stage for the Constitution of the United States.
	www.themayflowersociety.com /pilgrim.htm (368 words)

	Compacts and Contracts
		After the Mayflower had anchored off Cape Cod, some of the passengers began to question the authority of the leaders of the expedition.
		The Pilgrims drew up an agreement that the passengers would stay together in a "civil body politic." That agreement, later known as the Mayflower Compact, was signed on board the Mayflower on November 22, 1620 by 41 men.
		The Mayflower Compact is believed by many to be one of the earliest examples of democracy in America.
	www.pilgrimhall.org /compcon.htm (325 words)

	Mayflower Compact
		In 1620 the Pilgrims, persecuted for conscience's sake, "braved the tempests of the vast and furious ocean and the terrors lurking in the American wilderness" to plant their State of Freedom.
		Even before landing they set up their government by a written Compact; the first charter of a government of the people, by the people and for the people known to history.
		The "Mayflower" started with ninety-eight passengers; one was born on the voyage, and four joined them from the ship.
	publications.iowa.gov /archive/00000135/01/federal/5-6.html (355 words)

	Mayflower Compact
		The Mayflower Compact - On Sept. 6, 1620, the Mayflower, a sailing vessel of about 180 tons, started her memorable voyage...
		U.S. Documents - The Mayflower Compact The Declaration of Independence U.S. Constitution The Monroe Doctrine The...
		The Mayflower Compact: the Pilgrims would not survive in the New World unless they learned how to get along with each other.(AMERICAN......
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0832350.html (247 words)

	The Mayflower Compact, Lesson Plans
		The year is 2020, and the American spaceship Mayflower II has landed on Mars, exactly 400 years after the first Mayflower reached the New World.
		Aboard the Mayflower II are a team of scientists and a larger group of skilled workers.
		Unfortunately, due to a malfunction, the Mayflower II crash-landed in an area outside that designated for U.S. exploration by a United Nations treaty.
	www.crf-usa.org /Foundation_docs/Foundation_lesson_mayflower.html (1469 words)

	Mayflower Passengers
		Cooper, Humility Born about 1619, and no more than about a year old when she sailed on the Mayflower and was included in the Edward Tilley family, along with Henry Sampson as "cousins." By 1651, she was sent "for into" England and according to Bradford, "died there." Unmarried.
		He was among the signers of the Mayflower Compact.
		Williams, Thomas Among the signers of the Mayflower Compact.
	www.mayflowerfamilies.com /mayflower/mayflower_passenger_list.htm (2592 words)

	The Mayflower Compact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Compact was signed on November 11, 1620, on board the Mayflower while it was at anchor in Provincetown Harbor.
		The Compact was drawn up after the London and Leyden contingents started factionalizing, and there were worries of a possible mutiny by some of the passengers.
		In reality, the Mayflower Compact was superseded in authority by the 1621 Pierce Patent, which not only gave the Pilgrims the right to self-government at Plymouth, but also had the advantage of being authorized by the King of England.
	www.alden.org /documents/compact.htm (341 words)

	Sail1620 - Discover History: The Continued Meaning of the Mayflower Compact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Mayflower Compact, which they signed on board their tiny ship before they ever came ashore, was the seed of democratic government in this land.
		When the Pilgrims agreed in their Mayflower Compact that they would form a community of self-governing individuals, they started something which has spread throughout the world, so that the countries still under the heel of undemocratic regimes now form an isolated minority.
		The democracy which started in the cabin of the Mayflower is on the march.
	www.sail1620.org /discover_feature_the_continued_meaning_of_the_mayflower_compact.shtml (1040 words)

	THE MAYFLOWER
		The Mayflower sailed from England on the 16th of September, 1620, with 102 passengers.....
		Timothy Winslow is the son of Joseph Winslow, who was the son of John Winslow who arrived on the ship Fortune in 1621, and Mary Chilton, a Mayflower immigrant, who arrived on the Mayflower in 1620 as a 13 year old girl with her parents.......
		Thomas Rogers was a signer of the "Mayflower Compact".
	www.immigrantships.net /newcompass/ships/ship_files/mayflower.html (988 words)

	The Society of Mayflower Descendants - Mayflower Compact
		As the passengers aboard the Mayflower journeyed across the Atlantic, tensions arose among the three factions: the Separatists seeking religious freedom, the merchant-adventurers seeking their fortune, and the crew seeking their livelihood.
		It became apparent that if these passengers were to survive in an alien land, they needed to consent voluntarily to a cooperative form of government.
		Thus it was that The Mayflower Compact came into being and was signed by the adult male passengers in November, 1620.
	www.ctmayflower.org /mayflower_compact.php (286 words)

	The Mayflower Compact
		The Mayflower Compact was drawn up after the two main groups of colonists -- some from London and some from Leyden -- began to argue.
		There were worries of a possible mutiny by some of the passengers.
		The Mayflower Compact established that government, by creating a "civil body politic".
	www.rickriordan.com /mayflower_compact.htm (324 words)

	Understanding Primary Sources: The Mayflower Compact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Students examine the text of the Mayflower Compact to understand the writers' intent and the context in which it was written.
		Have each group write its own "Classroom Compact." Explain that they should follow the format of the Mayflower Compact but use modern language and substitute appropriate descriptions of themselves for those given in the Mayflower Compact.
		Have students rewrite their "Classroom Compacts" in the language and style of the Mayflower Compact.
	www.eduplace.com /ss/hmss/5/unit/act2.1.html (438 words)

	Sail1620 - Discover History: Not Everybody Signed the Mayflower Compact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The intent of the Compact was to assure that all would band together and submit to majority rule.
		The Mayflower Compact from William Bradford's Of Plimoth Plantation
		Dorothy Bradford, falling off the Mayflower while her husband was away exploring in the shallop, drowned in Provincetown Harbor.
	www.sail1620.org /discover_feature_not_everybody_signed_the_mayflower_compact.shtml (457 words)

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