Question

emancipation meant that southern landowners could no longer hire formerly enslaved people. headed north to work in new industries. could no longer rely on labor by enslaved people. lost their jobs to formerly enslaved people.

Explanation:

Emancipation (like the Emancipation Proclamation) freed enslaved people. Southern landowners relied on enslaved labor for their plantations. After emancipation, they couldn't use enslaved labor anymore.

• Option 1: They could still hire formerly enslaved people (as wage labor), so wrong.
• Option 2: Southern landowners didn't head north for new industries; formerly enslaved or others might migrate, so wrong.
• Option 3: Correct, as emancipation ended legal slavery, so no more enslaved labor.
• Option 4: Landowners didn't lose jobs to formerly enslaved people; they owned land/plantations, so wrong.

Answer:

C. could no longer rely on labor by enslaved people.