The Great Depression was one of the worst economic catastrophes in American history and a major disaster of the modern era. It was harrowing to experience. People were starving, even in the land of plenty. It triggered political upheavals in Europe that had devastating consequences. And it was so persistent that it only yielded to another global tragedy: the Second World War.
Well, we don't have the article, but, if my understanding is correct, before the nineteenth amendment was passed, women didn't have any voting rights at all.
