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<span>Northwest Ordinance. The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio, and also known as the The Ordinance of 1787) was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States (the Confederation Congress), passed July 13, 1787 </span>
The Mayflower Compact, signed by 41 English colonists on the ship Mayflower on November 11, 1620, was the first written framework of government established in what is now the United States.<span> The compact was drafted to prevent disagreements and or differences of opinion around Puritans and non-separatist Pilgrims who had landed at Plymouth a few days earlier.</span>