The great depression challenged american families in major ways, placing great economic, social, and psychological strains on these families. they became democrats, since the president that brought the great depression was republican, americans voted democrat for the next five years.
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It was very, very important for women to start working during the war because so many people were deployed that the demand for jobs in factories and other places was far higher than there were people available. Also, there were not enough women in the workforce at that time to fill those open positions. They filled many jobs in making supplies for war (that would normally be filled by men). Initially it was difficult to recruit the women (who were originally fitting the bill of "housewives"), and this is where those "We Can Do It" signs with "Rosie the Riveter" came about.
They created a limited government because they were escaping an oppressive one. They had been under the rule of Great Britain, a basically unlimited government. They did not want to create the same thing to replace the one that they had known.
