Explain how puritans congregations helped establish self-government in the colonies.

day in 1620, the Pilgrims, traveling on a ship called the Mayflower, arrived off Cape Cod on the Massachusetts coast. ... So most of the men aboard the Mayflower signed an agreement called the Mayflower Compact. The Mayflower Compact helped establish the practice of self-government and major- ity rule.

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