I would say the answer is C
The answer is The majority of widows and widowers "suffered from pathological grief".
Pathological grief is a term which is used for those who are not able to work as their daily routine due to their prolonged and intensive grief which comes after the death of their spouse.
Mostly widows and widowers are suffer in this grief or sorrow.It is the reaction of a big loss which effects social,financial and physical health as well.
Although textile mills and tobacco factories emerged in the South during this time, the plans for a New South largely failed. By 1900, per-capita income in the South was forty percent less than the national average, and rural poverty persisted across much of the South well into the twentieth century.
Southern colonies.
In 1619 the first colonial legislature was established in the Virginia House of Burgesses. However the thirteen of the colonies accompanying the eastern coast of North America was formed under different types of the charters, but most of these colonies developed the republican democratic governments to rule their dominions.