The diseases brought to this continent by the Europeans included bubonic plague, chicken pox, pneumonic plague, cholera, diphtheria, influenza, measles, scarlet fever, smallpox, typhus, tuberculosis, and whooping cough.
The kind of mood created in the opening of The Lottery is indeed cheerful, despite of how the plot develops later.
You're asked to describe the opening, not the whole story. Maybe the writer chose to set a cheerful mood in the opening in order to contrast it with the rest of the events or the characters in the story, and you're asked this specific question in order to notice this writing strategy.
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The United States will be paying more money because the damage was done in the U.S and Japan will have to fix everything the soldiers destroyed during the war.
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