<span>The Mayflower Compact was an agreement signed by the male passengers of the Mayflower and which served as the foundational governing agreement of the Plymouth colony. The Compact said that it was necessary to form a 'civil body politic' so that the colonists could be 'better ordered', or organized, to accomplish their shared goal of establishing an English colony in North America, and so that they would have the basis for establishing whatever laws, ordinances and offices they found necessary for accomplishing that goal.</span>
Germany lost World War I. In the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, the victorious powers (the United States, Great Britain, France, and other allied states) imposed punitive territorial, military, and economic provisions on defeated Germany. In the west, Germany returned Alsace-Lorraine to France.
Rain forests are most likely to be found closest to the equator
Despite the 2005 banning of amphetamines in major league baseball, some players have attempted to circumvent the amphetamine ban by <u>using anabolic steroids</u>.
The progressive era brought significant reforms to American industrial capitalism and to the American political system, through participation and activism by ordinary Americans. The progressives had organized to improve the working and living conditions for poor people, only really to address the glaring social and environmental problems, as well as expand opportunies for democratic involvement in the political system.
