What change was often seen in the physical arrangement of plantations after the civil war? (5 points) a the land was divided into smaller plots with housing for sharecroppers. b they increased in size and added more housing for slaves. c slave quarters were destroyed and all housing became concentrated near the main house. d they were divided in half with half of the land being given to the former slaves.

A. The land was divided into smaller plots with housing for sharecroppers.

Explanation:

The most difficult and important task for the southerners after the reconstruction was to devise a new system of labor for replacing the slaves. Prior to civil war the southern economy was dependent on the slavery, hence after its abolition it was not easy for the planters to  adjust. During reconstruction whiter farmers were thrown into poverty and started producing cotton which was a major change from the prewar days. Big plantation owners were devised a new system of labor called sharecropping, it became widespread in the cotton and tobacco plantations of south, wage labor was utilized on sugar plantations.In the sharecropping system the black families were given individual plots.

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paul willis (born 1950) is a british social scientist known for his work in sociology and cultural studies. paul willis' work is widely read in the fields of sociology, anthropology, and education, his work emphasizing consumer culture, socialization, music, and popular culture. he was born in wolverhampton[1] and received his education at the university of cambridge and at the university of birmingham. he worked at centre for contemporary cultural studies and subsequently at the university of wolverhampton. he was a professor of social/cultural ethnography at keele university. in the autumn of 2010, he left keele university and is now a professor at princeton university.

paul willis’s work has focused mainly, but not exclusively, on the ethnographic study of lived cultural forms in a wide variety of contexts. from highly structured to weakly structured ones, willis examines how practices of `informal cultural production` to produce and construct cultural worlds `from below`.[2]

trained in literary criticism at cambridge,[2] paul willis received his phd in 1972 from the centre for contemporary cultural studies at birmingham university where he remained as senior research fellow until 1981. he gave a paper at the 9th symposium of the natiohnal deviancy conference in january 1972 entitled 'a motor-bike subculture

during the 1980`s willis served as youth policy adviser to wolverhampton borough council in the english midlands. there he produced the youth review (published by the council and ashgate) which formed the basis for youth policy and for the formation of the democratically elected youth council, both still functioning. during the 1990s he served first as head of the division of media, communications and cultural studies, and then as a member of the professoriate at the university of wolverhampton. in 2000 willis co-founded the sage journal, ethnography. in 2003 willis was hired as a head professor of social and cultural ethnography at keele university.