The mayflower compact was written by a group of social misfits who decided that, cooperation, trust, and hope with the only ways that they would survive in this new, foreign, land. It was the first of its kind. The governing agreement not determined by a sense of divine right, but what is good for them as a group. Without this document, it would 've been chaos, anarchy. These people where thousands of miles from home and each where looking for something. The Separatists, a group of religious outcasts in their homeland, were looking for a place to worship their God freely. The Strangers, hard-working, penniless people came in search of a new life. Their struggle to create a free, equitable, society for the children to grow up in inspired a nation