Answer:
The Mayflower Compact implies that laws will be established by majority rule
Explanation:
The compact was written by the protestant English pilgrims that live in New World. This piece of document was first to be use to govern the Plymouth colony. It serves as the first document to be used to bring about self govern colony in the New World till 1691.
On January 29, 1850, the 70-year-old Clay presented a compromise. For eight months members of Congress, led by Clay, Daniel Webster, Senator from Massachusetts, and John C. Calhoun, senator from South Carolina, debated the compromise. With the help of Stephen Douglas, a young Democrat from Illinois, a series of bills that would make up the compromise were ushered through Congress.
<span>According to the compromise, Texas would relinquish the land in dispute but, in compensation, be given 10 million dollars -- money it would use to pay off its debt to Mexico. Also, the territories of New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah would be organized without mention of slavery. (The decision would be made by the territories' inhabitants later, when they applied for statehood.) Regarding Washington, the slave trade would be abolished in the District of Columbia, although slavery would still be permitted. Finally, California would be admitted as a free state. To pacify slave-state politicians, who would have objected to the imbalance created by adding another free state, the Fugitive Slave Act was passed.</span>
Native peoples of America had no immunity to the diseases that European explorers and colonists brought with them. Diseases such as smallpox, influenza, measles, and even chicken pox proved deadly to American Indians. Europeans were used to these diseases, but Indian people had no resistance to them.
<span>The Supreme Court
helped wear down the freedom of African-Americans after the civil war because
it didn't announce many of the laws that were intended to harass
African-Americans as unlawful. It even supported separation when it confirmed
that the doctrine of separate but equal was a constitutional right.</span>
Guns were gained and people were lost
