American Pageant Chapter 3 IDs

Chapter three Ids Mayflower Compact 1. Signed by 41 males onboard the Mayflower 2. Created to make sure that none of the group leave to form their own colony 3. Bound the group into one political body that would have to abide by any laws established Historical Significance: The Mayflower Compact was the bases for the government in the Plymouth Bay colony Halfway Covenant 1. Religious-political solution adopted by the Puritans 2. Allowed children of baptized but unconverted church members to …

…thrown out of America. William Penn 1. Quaker who founded Pennsylvania (got land from Charles II who was in debt to Penn's father who had recently died) 2. Founded Pennsylvania so Quakers could escape religious persecution 3. William Penn and his fellow Quaker Pennsylvanians were one of the few groups who got along with the native Americans Historical Significance: Founded Pennsylvania and established freedom of religion in Pennsylvania so Quakers and other religious groups could escape religious persecution.