Why was the mayflower important?

The men on the Mayflower had prior knowledge that a lack of government was the reason other colonies had failed. So all 41 men signed the compact to provide fair and equal laws to all. These settlers had come to America a refuges from religious intolerance and for the sake of survival, drew up the "Mayflower Compact" after arriving at in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod, Massachusetts on November 1620.