The start of the American Industrial Revolution is often attributed to Samuel Slater who opened the first industrial mill in the United States in 1790 with a design that borrowed heavily from a British model. Slater's pirated technology greatly increased the speed with which cotton thread could be spun into yarn.
D) <span>The Enlightenment was a European movement that spread to the colonies.
This is because the Enlightenment was an era based off of the ideas of many different philosophers like Locke and Rousseau who came from Europe.</span>
