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Answer:The Mayflower Compact created laws for Mayflower Pilgrims and non-Pilgrims alike for the good of their new colony. It was a short document which established that: the colonists would remain loyal subjects to King James, despite their need for self-governance
Explanation:
It told them about who the newly discovered and the to be discovered lands will belong to: so not to the country that would conquer them.
Specifically, it divided America among the meridian of 370 leagues of Portuguese Cape Verde: west of this line (most of Americas) would belong to Spain and east (Africa, Brazil) would belong to Brazil.