As a reaction to the FTA signed in 1988 many Canadians obtained new jobs.
Answer:
Confederates, to ensure that the support for the confederates were reduced.
Explanation:
The Homestead Act was created in 1862 to provide both Adult citizens or intended adult citizens who never rise to fight against the government with 160 acres of land.
Since the confederates forces rose against the government during the civil war in 1861, they're excluded from this act.
This made a lot of southern people lost support for the confederates and choose to sided with the union in order to obtain some pieces of those lands.
Bureaucracy! That is the main problem of the empire and mostly the republic. The republic fell because the size of the empire was to big, the events were moving rapidly and there was no time for bureaucracy, voting, debating and so on. When Rome became an empire it didn't of course change immediately. Some parts of the republic stayed enact. One of them was administrative bureaucracy. Luckily for the empire, after the third century crises, Diocletian started the dominate where the senate lost almost all of its power thus providing the empire with a more effective style of government where one man or two men, later three or four gave direct orders without having to debate and vote. That gave the empire 200 years more to live, although because of its size and changeable political currents it was never to last as a permanent state.