Religion
This is the fastest growing religion in the world.
This European nation started the Atlantic slave trade.
What is Portugal?
This country experienced a 100-day genocide in 1994 when Hutus, encouraged by radio propaganda, massacred Tutsi people.
What is Rwanda?
This is the name for the confederacy of Indigenous nations that remain present in Maine to this day.
What is Wabanaki?
The 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920 granting women this important right.
What is the right to vote?
Of the five major religions, this is the oldest one.
What is Hinduism?
This was the name of the journey from Africa to the Americas that millions of enslaved Africans were forced to take.
What is the Middle Passage?
In the 1990s, Yugoslavia split leading to a genocide that primarily targeted this Bosnian religious group.
What are Muslims?
This river, one of the largest in the United States, has influenced the development of various forms of American music, including the Delta Blues, Rock n Roll, and Jazz.
What is the Mississippi River?
This momentous event changed the trajectory of the American LGBTQ+ rights movement and is the reason why Pride is celebrated in June each year.
What is the Stonewall Uprising?
This religion encourages people to reject both materialism and self-deprivation. Instead, it calls for people to find a middle way.
What is Buddhism?
This year is when the first enslaved Africans arrived in what is now the United States.
What is 1619?
These laws defined Jews as a distinct and inferior racial category that needed to be separated from Aryan Germans.
What are the Nuremberg Laws?
Penobscot people view the Penobscot River as a life source and as this type of family member.
What is a sister?
This woman challenged both racism and sexism with her powerful speech, “Ain’t I a Woman?”
Who is Sojourner Truth?
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are often considered branches of the same tree due to their shared belief in the same one God and in this important patriarch/prophet.
Who is Abraham?
This famous abolitionist taught himself to read and write and advised President Lincoln, encouraging him to emancipate enslaved people during the Civil War.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Dith Pran famously remained in this country, his home country, to courageously document the “killing fields” of the genocide happening in the 1970s.
What is Cambodia?
This is the term used to describe when people of color are exposed to higher levels of pollution and contamination.
What is environmental racism?
This woman wrote the Declaration of Sentiments and is considered one of the mothers of the American Women’s Rights Movement.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
This early Christian missionary was one of the most influential figures in the spread of Christianity due to the numerous letters that he wrote.
Who is Paul?
This famous West African leader is considered the wealthiest man in human history.
Who is Mansa Musa?
The Stab in the Back Myth, fueled by propaganda cartoons of Jews holding daggers, spread the lie that Jews had betrayed Germany during this war.
What is WWI?
This is the term used to describe when companies market themselves and their products as being more environmentally friendly than they really are.
What is greenwashing?
In 2020, the Supreme Court ruled in Bostock v Clayton County that discrimination against individuals for their sexual orientation or gender identity is a violation of this major American law.
What is the Civil Rights Act?