context: The two most traumatic experiences in the nation 's history were the Civil War ( 1861 - 65 ) , in which a northern Union of states defeated a secessionist Confederacy of 11 southern slave states , and the Great Depression of the 1930s , an economic downturn during which about a quarter of the labor force lost its jobs .
hypothesis: Great Depression is a person
corpus-sent-id: p08/d0688 3