D.
Their tiny wooden ship, called the
Mayflower, arrived at present-day Massachusetts in the fall of
1620. There they founded Plymouth Colony. The Pilgrims, as
they called themselves, had no charter. Therefore, before they
disembarked from their ship, they gathered to draw up an
agreement. The Mayflower Compact, as the agreement
was called, allowed the Pilgrims to establish laws based on a
majority vote. It also permitted towns and villages to govern
themselves. However, all these governments had to be based
on Puritan religious ideas.