Which of the following is a characteristic of a free-market economy?
a. individual choice
b. centralized planning
c. government influence in the private sector
d. community ownership of resources

A. Individual choice is the correct answer.

Explanation:

In a free market system, the prices for goods and services are determined by the open market. The forces and law of demand and supply are free from government intervention or any other authority. It is different from regulated markets in which the government intervenes in the demand and supply by creating barriers or price-fixing, While in free-market the prices are allowed to reach their equilibrium without any government intervention

after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.

the noble might have thought that the system was far because they had lot of things and riches and the serf would have thought that the feudal system was un fair because of the way they were treated.