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• Industrial Revolution - a period of time of great technological advances. more things were made in factories, and canals and railways were built.
• The Victorian era is roughly the time when Queen Victoria was on the throne of the United Kingdom. She came to the throne in 1837 and died in 1901. People who lived during this period are known as Victorians.
• In the victorian era the rich lived a life of ease and comfort whereas the life of the poor was extremely challenging. The rich had servants to run their houses where as the poor often didn't have enough money for food or housing.
• During the victorian era the industrial revolution meant that large numbers of people moved to towns and cities. rows of back to back houses were built for the poor but the rich lived in much big mansions of houses.