Use the quotation and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following question.


“[We] hereof do . . . enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the General good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due Submission and Obedience.” —The Mayflower Compact.


What was the significance of the Mayflower Compact?

AThe colonists professed their continuing loyalty to King Charles I of England.

BThe idea of self-government would later become one of the founding principles of the United States.

CThe colonists recognized the land rights of Native Americans.

DThe promise of religious freedom would apply to all of the American colonies.