The correct answer is (2) It increased efforts to maintain order and
enforce laws.
The American colonists rebelled against British policies in several different ways, including throwing tar and feathers on British tax collectors and destroying millions of dollars worth of tea during the Boston Tea Party. The British government did not respond well to these actions, as they tried to increased control over the colonies.
One example of this would be the Intolerable (Coervice) Acts. This was a set of punishments made by the British government after the Boston Tea Party. This closed Boston harbor (hurting colonial merchants) and forced American colonists to quarter (house) British soldiers at any given time.
The quote “... any Indian who received news of the Spaniards could have also easily received the infection” refers to the fact that when the Spanish explorers advanced into Central America, the diseases they were carrying often spread faster than them, including ahead of them.
The context is the so-called Columbian Exchange (after Christopher Columbus), which is the large exchange of animals, food, culture, people, techniques, and diseases that took place between Native Americans (or Indians) and Europeans after 1492.
The quote focuses on one particular aspect of this exchange: the spread of infections. While the Indians did contaminate the Europeans with some of their diseases, like syphilis, many infections destroyed Native American lives because they had not developed a resistance to them like Europeans did. These included measles and smallpox, which were introduced in America through the Caribbean in the early 16th century.
Both groups have a very deep history of racial persecution that they and their ancestors went though
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Answer;
C. <span>Imperialists use civilization as an excuse to take advantage of people.
Explanation;
</span><span>In his "To the Person Sitting In Darkness" Twain is showing the immoral path America has set itself on by trying to establish an empire similar to those of European governments of the time. He despises the path of brutality and inhumanity that the Americans have set for themselves as their nations policy in dealing with inferior races both in their own country and also China and the Philippines also disparages the role of churches and their missionaries in the spread of the American dream in foreign countries on the pretext of spreading the Christian religion.</span>
