Multiple choice

The Mayflower Compact and Fundamental Orders of Connecticut are most closely associated with

  1. steps toward colonial self-government

  2. adoption of universal suffrage

  3. establishment of religious toleration

  4. abuses by absolute monarchs
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Explanation

The Mayflower Compact (1620) and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639) are landmark documents in American history because they established early frameworks for self-government based on the consent of the governed. They did not establish universal suffrage or absolute religious toleration, but they laid the groundwork for democratic practices.

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