• How Things Got Bigger: Economy of Scale: Words to Know
• The American system
• Frederick Taylor and Scientific Management
• Networks
• The Importance of Transportation
• The robber barons
• The Muckrakers
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In the one hundred years between 1800 and 1900, things got much bigger. Businesses boomed: a family-run fabric-making operation that was contained in a single cottage in 1800 had turned into an enormous factory housing giant machines and employing hundreds of workers by 1900. Transportation expanded: a horse-drawn cart delivering farm produce to market in...