Missouri admitted as a slave state.Maine admitted as a free state.Slavery disallowed in future territories north of 36°30' except within Missouri itself.
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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*Columbian
The Columbian Exchange greatly affected almost every society on earth, bringing destructive diseases that depopulated many cultures, and also circulating a wide variety of new crops and livestock that, in the long term, increased rather than diminished the world human population.
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