The start of the American Industrial Revolution<span> is often attributed to Samuel Slater who opened the first </span>industrial<span> 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.</span>
although the democratic party dominated
state politics for much of the twentieth century, by the 1950's it faced internal
division between Liberal and Conservative Democrats.
The split between liberal and conservatives that developed
in the Democratic Party focused on New Deal economic policies and civil rights
measures.
