which of the followingstatements is most accurate regarding the Mayflower Compact?

Question

a. it founded the plymouth colony under a propriety governor
b. it gave the pilgrims their own charter
c. it made Plymouth a royal colony
d. it created the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Answer 1

The answer is B.

The document mentions no governor, just an agreement to submit to the laws that they together establish. And since it is not written by or to a king (or king's representative) it did not establish any "royal colony".

Check these details (or lack of them!) in the compact's text - here:
http://www.pilgrimhall.org/compact.htm

And D is impossible, because the Massachusetts Bay Colony was a separate entity, chartered in 1629 and settling in 1630. Here is THEIR charter (in which a governor is, in fact, mentioned)
http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/D/1601-1650/massachusetts/mchart.htm

Answer 2

here