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women |
majority of voters in this year's election were |
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ethnic group |
sociologists classify jews as |
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yarmulkah |
the skullcap orthodox jewish men wear is called |
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wisconsin |
this state elected tammy baldwin to be the first openly gay us senator |
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all |
hitler rose to power by scapegoating jews, gypsies, jehova witnesses for |
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montana |
all these states were part of mexico except |
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poland |
the nazis operated their biggest death camps in |
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all the above |
the nazis meant to commit genocide against the |
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denmark |
defying the nazis, this country got nearly all its jews to safety by boat |
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nurmeberg |
war crimes tribunals against the nazis were held in this german city |
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abigail adams |
this first lady wrote the first american letter demanding women's rights |
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1848 |
the first women's rights convention in the us was held in this year |
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seneca falls |
this first women's rights convention was held in this place |
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kennedy |
the term affirmative action was first used by this president |
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shi'ites |
the two most important sects within islam today are the sunni's and the |
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350 million |
approximately this many avowed buddhists are in the world today |
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awakened |
the word buddha means |
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suffering |
the primary goal of buddhist meditation is to end |
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middle path |
the buddha found enlightenment by practicing |
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unitarianism |
thomas jefferson and john adams listed this as their primary faith |
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tibet |
the dalai lama is the spiritual and political leader of this country |
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china |
the dalai lama was forced to flee his country after an invasion by |
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none |
according to islam, this man was divine |
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mecca |
muslims bow five times a day toward |
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ramadan |
the muslim month of fasting is called |
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all |
as part of their belief system, quakers embrace |
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stonewall |
in 1969, gay men fought police at this new york bar |
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50 |
the gap in years between the constitutional amendment that guaranteed the right to vote regardless of race versus the one that guaranteed it regardless of gender |
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nationwide |
this company was one of the few that would hire gays in the 1950s |
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kenya |
barack obama's mother was from kansas, his father from |
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rosa parks |
in montgomery, on dec 1, 1955, she refused to give up her seat on a bus |
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title 9 |
this opened the door on women's sports in high school and college |
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susan b anthony |
this great feminist leader was arrested in the 1870s for trying to vote |
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loving v virginia |
this supreme court decision guaranteed the right to interracial marriage |
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white women |
affirmative action has been most beneficial to this group |
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reform |
the major denominations among modern jews and orthodox, conservative, and |
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hinduism |
the oldest and 3rd largest major religion is |
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mattachine |
this society was among the first to openly advocate for gay rights |
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buchanan |
this pennsylvania bachelor is believed to have been our first gay president |
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no nukes |
gandhian non-violence is used by ecologist to fight for |
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ohio |
this state banned gay marriage with a constitutional amendment passed in 2004 |
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nicea |
unitarians rejected the trinity at a conference in |
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fasting |
gandhi ended the indian hindu/muslim civil war by |
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cambodia |
hispanics come from all these places except |
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ethnic cleansing |
muslim removal in yugoslavia, like cherokee removal in the us, is an example of |
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none |
scientists can differentiate genetically among the races based on |
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genocide |
the deliberate, systematic killing of an entire population or nation is called |
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50 |
during ww2 rosie the riveter got this percentage of pay for work equal to men |
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emma goldman |
this socialist organizer was the first to speak about homosexuality in public |
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discrimination in corporate advancement |
the glass ceiling refers to |