Mayflower Compact

The Mayflower Compact was the first

• celebration of what we call Thanksgiving.

• constitution in the New World.

• a meeting to decide where to settle.

• English ship to come to America.

The author explains what the Mayflower Compact did and then

• explains why it is similar to the U.S. Constitution.

• discusses constitutions that came before it.

• explains why the colony could not survive.

• describes the men who wrote the document.

Based on the passage, what might have happened to the Pilgrims without the Mayflower Compact?

• They would have won independence from England sooner.

• Their ship would have never reached the Americas.

• They would have never set sail from England.

• They might have fought too much to be a successful colony.

Read the following sentences: “The Mayflower Compact was written by the Pilgrims and meant to be for them as well. This principle of government being “by, of, and for the people” is one of the main ideas of democracy.”

The word principle means

• an argument against something

• the first of a kind

• a belief, an idea

• a government employee

This passage is mostly about

• how the Mayflower Compact is important in American history.

• how the Pilgrims decided where to start a colony.

• the man who came up with the idea for a constitution.

• why the Mayflower Compact was better than the Constitution.

The question below is an incomplete sentence. Choose the answer that best completes the sentence.

At first, the Pilgrims were arguing, but _________ they had a document they agreed on.

• before

• as a result

• never

• soon