Examines the formation of the Mayflower Compact and its importance as the first written document of self-government in the new world and provides information on the early settlers and the reasons they left England as well as the struggles of the Plymouth Plantation.
year: 2005
call number/section: 974.4, 973.2
subjects: pilgrims (new plymouth colony), juvenile literature, pilgrims (new england colonists), massachusetts, history, new plymouth, 1620-1691, juvenile literature, united states, 1600-1775, colonial period