Based on the options given, the answer is a. leave them alone. Laissez-faire means leaving the people on the task and letting them perform on their own. Thank you for your question. Please don't hesitate to ask in Brainly your queries.
<span>Four clear options emerged for the freedmen and women after the war: obtain land, move, work for former masters, or sharecrop. Some freedmen were able to obtain their own personal land to work to support themselves and their families. Others opted to move to the cities and the North to find work that was not agrarian based. Directly after the war, plantation owners established a contract labor system that employed their former slaves</span>
At this time period, people were looking for jobs in factories so they flocked to the cities where factories were becoming popular.
I think it might be A. but i am not 100% sure so please don’t be mad if it’s wrong, and good luck!!