It was the Netherlands that originally settled the colony that would later become known as New York.
The answer is starvation, I just took the test and got it right. If you look up Holodomor it means <span>"to kill by starvation", also known as the Terror-Famine and Famine-Genocide in Ukraine.</span>
As they did not understand the biology of the disease, many people believe that the black death was a kind of divine punishment retribution for sins against god such as greed, blasphemy, heresy, fornication and worldliness. By this logic, the only way to overcome the plague was to win God‘s forgiveness.