Samuel Slater (1768 – 1835) is known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" in the US and as "Slater the Traitor" in the UK. He brought the textil industrualization model from the UK when he inmigrated to the US, by copying the designs of the textile factory machinery where he worked as apprentice in the UK, adapting such designs to the characteristics of the new location.
He developed the first cotton mills in the US and ended up founding a very powerful family business there.
With the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in 1814 and the end of the War of 1812, many Americans viewed the Federalists as traitors. The Federalist Party collapsed, leaving the Democratic-Republican Party as the only political party in the United States until the mid-1820s.
