<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>
During the Civil War the northerners fought because they were against slavery, the southerners fought because the slaves did the work for them.
<span>The
expansion of the Ottoman empire,in particular their capture of
Constantinople in 1453,cut off Europe from traditional overland trade
routes east.This meant these land routes had to bypassed if Europeans
were to get the spices,silk,and other Eastern trade goods they
needed,and the only way to do this was by sea. Hope that helps</span>
