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Framing the Mayflower Compact (1620), p. 42 I do not think the Mayflower Compact was the first American constitution, but it could have set an example for it. They were considered a “civil body politic,” and I feel as though that could have shaped our country into what it is now. The early settlers all had some form of government/ legislative body that our government was influenced by. Anne Hutchinson Is Banished (1637), p. 47 While reading this passage it was hard to imagine that there was/is no freedom of speech and religion in many countries. Anne Hutchinson was banished for simply believing in something different. She had every right to question the sermons. It shows how powerful religion was in this time period. The Intolerant Act of Toleration (1649), p. 38 The law was very specific and unethical. It made Christans the only people exempt from the law. If this law was strongly enforced, Christianity could have been the ohly religion today. The others would have been wiped-out and our society would not be so diverse. A Young African Boy Is Taken into Slavery (1735), p. 24 The Story of Venture Smith gives the reader an idea of how slave life was in the seventeenth century. Unfortunately, Venture experienced the majority of his life as a slave. While reading the story there was an innocence that was portrayed in a way. Venture never was able to grow up normal, and he did not know much about the world and knowledge.