Mayflower Compact Up To 1763

Political: Up to 1763
Up to 1763, there were acts that were banned from colonies and wars with the Spanish.

In November 1620, the Mayflower Compact was signed when the Pilgrims arrived in Virginia to stay there. The Pilgrims had in mind to stay around the Hudson River, but changed their mind because there were hazardous areas of shallow water and they were close to shipwreck when they tried heading to the south. Then, they chose to make themselves a place to stay outside the areas of Virginia. The Mayflower Compact was a way to try and legally bind to create a self- government.

The Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1629 was mostly populated by the Puritans. The Puritans were granted the rights to move into and control one of the colonies from the Massachusetts Bay regions. The

This covenant was meant for people of the Puritan colonies, who were children. It gave children the chance to become saints.

The Cambridge Agreement of August 1629, was an agreement that involved the shareholders of the Massachusetts Bay Company. In this agreement, there was a group of shareholders that want to leave the country to go and stay in another, but the other group of shareholders didn’t want to leave the country. The group that was going to leave the country, were Puritans, and they left only to have power over the government of the colony. In 1701, the Frame of Government organized the government for Pennsylvania. This gave the counties the right to create their own colonies.

In 1699, the Woolen Act, didn’t allow wool to be exported anywhere else, but Britain. With Britain receiving most of the wool by restricting the amount of wool that went to Ireland, Britains wool industry opened and expanded. Then, there was the Hat Act of 1732, that banned hats from colonies from being sent out to other countries. The act also cut down the amount of workers that worked for people who made the