- Calvin Coolidge (1872 – 1933) was the 30th president of the United States and he was in office between 1923 to 1929.
- Warren G. Harding (1865 – 1923) was the 29th president of the US from 1921 until his death in 1923.
Both pertained to the Republican party and supported and implemented <u><em>laisez-faire</em></u><u> economic measures</u>, that consisted on free functioning of the markets with minimum goverment interventionism. Markets alone, would produce the most efficent outcomes, according to his viewpoint. Therefore, the policies introduced by their governments, involved minimum regulation for businesses, and for the economic activity in general.
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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.
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