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The Writing of the Mayflower Compact: Background and its Significance
The background of the Mayflower Compact
During the 1500s, King HenryⅧ made a Protestant Reformation to encourage establishing of the Church of England. At this time, many puritans, who didn’t think it is possible to change the Church of England and abandoned Anglicanism, called “Separatists”, didn’t support the official English church. It’s normal that the Separatists were persecuted by the king’s soldiers, so the Separatists determined to secure religious freedom, boarded the Mayflower and set sail for Americas shores.
There were 102 passengers who undertook the long, perilous?journey?on the Mayflower were not all Separatists (later called Pilgrims). The pilgrims had organized the voyage. They wanted to separate from the Anglican Church (the Church of England). These Separatists had originally left England for the Netherlands to escape religious persecution but believed the New World, discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492, was a better option. The Separatists had obtained a land patent from the London Virginia Company allowing them to settle at the mouth of the Hudson River. To raise money for the voyage they were financed by the Merchant?Adventurers who were looking to make a profit. The Pilgrims agreed to repay their backers. The Pilgrims originally boarded a ship called the Speedwell, but the ship needed repairs so they joined together with other passengers and travelled to the New World on the Mayflower. There were 102 passengers on the Mayflower. Only 41 of them were Separatists. The passengers were split into two groups?- the Separatists (Pilgrims) and the rest of the passengers,?who were called strangers by the?Pilgrims. The two groups are referred to as the Strangers and the Saints. And the Saints were the Separatists, a close society, whose primary motivation in making the journey was the establishment of a colony in which they could have religious freedom, and were not unified b
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