5. Describe two political problems they South faced after the Civil War:​

The most difficult task confronting many Southerners during Reconstruction was devising a new system of labor to replace the shattered world of slavery. The economic lives of planters, former slaves, and nonslaveholding whites, were transformed after the Civil War.

Explanation:

i think it's the cabinet

to fit in with the new circle of friends that looks like to accept him, elias realized that he needs to abandon being an excellent student at his old school. elias does this because of conformity, that’s why he put forth little effort in his school work at his new school,