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... thought national banks were unconstitutional. He wanted to give power back to state banks to get rid of British/Foreign influence. 6.Francis Cabot Lowell – co-founder of the Boston Manufactoring Company. Known for inventing the power loom and for the Lowell System; his greatest contribution was to the Textile Industry. 7.Tariff Act of 1816 -signed to protect the US Industry from foreign competition(Textile.) 8.Slave Codes – there were laws in the south that governed the way blacks were treated. These included marriage, sale price, and punishments. 9.Samuel Morse – an anti-catholic that invented the telegraph and morse code. 10.Urbanization – people moving to the cities. Industrialization attracted poor country people and immigrants. This took place in regions of the northeast and midwest. 11.Nativism – bidgets against immigrants because they believed they would take their jobs. 12.Textile Industry – textile manufactorers adopted new machinery and the division of labor. They achieved dramatic gains of productivity. They were mostly located in the northeast. 13.Lowell System – single poor farm women recruited for textile industries; they were paid low wages and used primarily in New England. There was a decline in the Lowell System due to greater competition in the Textile Industry. 14.Transportation – roads were slow and inefficient replacing them with steam boats in canals and railroads. Located in the Northeast. 15.Adams-Onis Treaty – spain gave up florida, claims to the pacific NW, in return the US gave up claims to Texas and assumed a $5 million debt from spain. 16.Missouri Compromise – compromise between the north and south in 1819, conflict came about trying to decide whether Missouri should be a free or slave state, it had an economic toll because of free labor vs slave labor. The outcome was Maine became a free state and Missouri became a slave state. 17.Southern Agriculture- the most important cash crop was short staple cotton. Many people left to the south in order to meet the demands of this crop. As a result of the cotton gin, slavery spread in the South. 18.Slave Religion - most slaves were methodist and baptist(chriti...