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The ''Mayflower'' was one of the first ships to sail and bring good [[Christianity|Christians]] from England to what was then the New World. British citizens yearned to establish a Christian Society and to bring the Light of [[Christ]] to the previously sullen and pagan natives.
The ''Mayflower'' was one of the first ships to sail and bring good [[Christianity|Christians]] from England to what was then the New World. British citizens yearned to establish a Christian Society free from the religious oppression that they had faced in England.
The ship's passengers made the [[Mayflower Compact]], a set of laws they would follow upon landing in America.
The ship's passengers made the [[Mayflower Compact]], a set of laws they would follow upon landing in America.