Question

What was the significance of the Mayflower Compact?

A. The colonists professed their continuing loyalty to King Charles I of England.
B. The idea of self-government would later become one of the founding principles of the United States.
C. The colonists recognized the land rights of Native Americans.
D. The promise of religious freedom would apply to all of the American colonies.

Answer 1

B. The idea of self-government would later become one of the founding principles of the United States.....Because the Mayflower compact established a government for the settlers