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An Apprentice's Indenture Contract (1718), pp. 55-56

1. what obligation does each party assume in this document?

      Apprentice must follow the master's rule and apprentice shall not do anything illegal or anything without his master's agreement. Apprentice has to respect his master. In return, the master has to supply food, shelter, clothes. They are making the agreement to make their relationship better.

2. how is the liberty of the apprentice limited by the indenture? 

     Apprentice can not play any games such as cards, dice or, any other unlawful game without his master's permission. Apprentice shall not allow to reveal his master's secret. Apprentice shall follow whatever master tells him or her what to do. Apprentice has to respect his master and obey his commands in any places. Apprentice is not allow to damage his master. Apprentice shall not commit fornication. Apprentice is not allow to buy or sell during this term. Apprentice shall not be absent day or night from his master's service without his permission. Apprentice shall behave during his term.

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Chapter 1- A New World

43-44 
1. Describe why the "discovery" of america was one of the "most important events recorded in the history of mankind,"according to Adam Smith.

- I think it's because people suffered a series of devastating epidemics, the greatest population catastrophe in human history. and people created an american of the imagination and projecting onto it their hopes for a better life.

Chapter 2- Beginning of English America

86-87
2. How did the tobacco economy draw the Chesapeake colonies into the greater Atlantic world?

- Tobacco was the first cash crop and people in those time loved it and they used it like a gold. As spreading of tobacco farming, produced a dispersed society with few towns and little social unity. 

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Sending Women to Virginia (1622), pp. 25-27.

1. What advantages does the Virginia Company see in the promotion of family life in the colony?

• The Virginia Company promote immigration of women and send them to the colony and forces them to arrange marry with other guy. Then, husband has to give a payment in tobacco to his wife. Also, they have to complete their terms of service before marrying so it takes a time to start a family. When the company forces immigrated women to arrange marry someone it decreases number of the women in Virginia. Company rather have single men, widows, and orphans than happy family.

2. Why does the company prefer that the women marry landowning men rather than servants?

• First, landowning men are rich. They have a large amount of land where they hire people to farm. By hiring people they make more money by selling things from the farm. Landowning men does not have to do anything but they still make a lot of money out of it. Servants are not as rich as landowners. They do not all the free time they have. When women marry landowning men they also get someone their properties and men sends a gift. In the story, they received 120 lbs of tobacco from the landowner.

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    Thomas Morton, The Native Americans of New England (1637), pp. 4 – 7

1. What does Morton admire in the life of Native American, and what does he condemn?

• "He admired their generously and the fact that they weren’t obsessed with acquiring superfluous commonities". p 4 
• "He condemned some aspect of Indians life that claim their religious beliefs amounted to devil-work ship". p 4

- First of all, I think he was surprised how they weren't rich or anything they hunt and gather to survive but when they see someone who are starving they share their meal. When they see someone who is sleeping without a cover then they would put a leather on top of them to keep them warm. In addition, he was quite impressed with their skill of building. The way how they bend wood to make an roof and put animal fur on the ground to stay warm. Secondly, He condemned because Indians live different than New England people. They don't dress fancy or stay clean. They hunt and they are not clean at all. Moreover, He thinks their religion is total joke because England people believe in different God than Native Americans.

2.  What does he write that the Indians leads a “freer life” than Europeans? 

- Europeans can't do everything they want. Sometimes, they have to get a permission from their King or Queen to do something and if you do something wrong you will get punished. They also have to follow certain rule they can't just live however they want to. Indians could do whatever they want. They might have a leader but they are not stopped by a rule. They don't have to dress fancy or nice. Their clothes doesn't have to stay clean. They have to smell nice because nobody cares how they dress. In Europe, if people were dress poorly and smelling bad then they will be judged.