Explain how puritans congregations helped establish self-government in the colonies.

day in 1620, the Pilgrims, traveling on a ship called the Mayflower, arrived off Cape Cod on the Massachusetts coast. ... So most of the men aboard the Mayflower signed an agreement called the Mayflower Compact. The Mayflower Compact helped establish the practice of self-government and major- ity rule.

the government paid religious orders to provide basic education to native american children on reservations. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the bureau of indian affairs (bia) founded additional boarding schools based on the assimilation model of the off-reservation carlisle indian industrial school.