As a result of the fur trade in the 1500s, American Indians began to have a growing influence on the French traders in the region, which eventually led to conflicts with Britain and the colonists.
        
             
        
        
        
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Unlike solidly Puritan New England, the middle colonies presented an assortment of religions. The presence of Quakers, Mennonites, Lutherans, Dutch Calvinists, and Presbyterians made the dominance of one faith next to impossible. The middle colonies included Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware.
 
        
             
        
        
        
The correct answer is "Parents refused to care for their dying children".
The situation to which the narrator is referring to as "even worse, and almost incredible" during the plage, is that parents were abandoning their suffering children. <u>This is what he found to be the most poignant and striking image that conveyed the extent of the horrors brought by the plague</u>. Mothers and fathers refused to care for their dying children or even visit them in innumerable cases.
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The correct answers are 1, 3, and 4. Answer 2 is incorrect as there was no significant food production in North Africa. Answer 5 is also incorrect since Germany is quite a distance away from North Africa.