What reasons did the Pilgrims give for creating the Mayflower Compact? to create a colony, establish a new church, and provide a long life for their children to organize a new nation and create order, and for financial gain to organize themselves, guarantee a long life for the colony, and achieve their goals in setting up the colony“… and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, … as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.” —Mayflower Compact