Which of the followingstatements is most accurate regarding the Mayflower Compact?

a. it founded the plymouth colony under a propriety governor


b. it gave the pilgrims their own charter


c. it made Plymouth a royal colony


d. it created the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Which of the followingstatements is most accurate regarding the Mayflower Compact?
The answer is B.





The document mentions no governor, just an agreement to submit to the laws that they together establish. And since it is not written by or to a king (or king's representative) it did not establish any "royal colony".





Check these details (or lack of them!) in the compact's text - here:


http://www.pilgrimhall.org/compact.htm





And D is impossible, because the Massachusetts Bay Colony was a separate entity, chartered in 1629 and settling in 1630. Here is THEIR charter (in which a governor is, in fact, mentioned)


http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/D/1601-1650/ma...
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