Instructions for Mayflower Compact, Fundamental Orders, and House of

Burgesses paper
1. Read the primary source document The Mayflower Compact and mark the
text. Circle terms you dont understand, high-light main ideas, and make
margin notes
2. Discuss with partner why you high-lighted what you did.
3. Answer the following questions in your notebook:
In what two presences is this document being signed?
The signers promise to covenant and combine ourselves together into
a civil body politic. What does it mean to covenant and combine"?
What do the signers mean by civil body politic?
What will the civil body politic do from time to time?
Why do the signers say they need to do this?
What do the signers promise?
4. Read the primary source document The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
and mark the text. Circle terms you dont understand, high-light main ideas,
and make margin notes.
5. Discuss with partner why you high-lighted what you did.
6. Answer the following questions in your notebook:
What is meant by where a people are gathered together the word of
God requires that to maintain the peace and union of such a people
there should be an orderly and decent Government established
according to God?
What is meant by associate and connive ourselves to be as one Public
State or Commonwealthto be guided and governed according to such
Laws, Rules, Orders and decrees as shall be made, ordered &
decreed?
What is being said in Order #1?
What is being said in Order #4?
What is being said in Order #5?
What is being said in Order #7?
7. Read the interpretations of both the Mayflower Compact and the
Fundamental Orders.
8. Read the secondary source about the Virginia House of Burgesses and mark
the text while you read. Circle terms you dont understand, high light the
main ideas, and make margin notes.
9. Discuss with partner why you high-lighted what you did.
10.Answer the following questions in your notebook:
How did the London Company go about trying to attract more settlers
to Virginia?
Briefly describe the basic structure of the House of Burgesses.
What was the ultimate function of the House of Burgesses?
How can we see the democratic ideals that are directly linked to a
limited monarchy in the Virginia House of Burgesses?

Homework: Write a 1-1 page paper explaining the similarities between the
Mayflower Compact, the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, and the Virginia House
of Burgesses.
Papers should include at least three (3) quotes from the primary source documents,
and one from the secondary sourcedont quote the interpretations.
Paper should have an introduction (including a thesis), two to three body
paragraphs, and a conclusion.