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Glossary
Aboriginal Relating to Indigenous people guerrilla Describes irregular warfare
who are native to Australia based on military tactics such as ambushes
activists People who campaign to bring homosexuality Being sexually attracted
about social change only to people of one’s own sex
amendments Additions or minor changes incarcerated Confined in prison
made to a constitution Indigenous Native to a particular place
assassinated Murdered for political or Middle Ages The period of history
religious reasons between about 1000 and 1453
bathhouses Houses or places in which militant Using confrontation and violence
sexual activity took place to achieve a political goal
boycotts Campaigns to avoid goods or nobles Members of the elite aristocracy
services from a particular source of a society
caste A traditional social class in India non-cooperation A refusal to cooperate
charter A written document defining rights with laws or authorities
granted by a ruler or government occupation To seize a building or area
Chicano An American of Mexican descent by moving into it and refusing to leave
civil disobedience A refusal to comply with pressure groups Organizations that try
particular laws, usually as a form of peaceful to influence the actions of governments
political protest quadriplegia Without the use of both arms
colonies Areas governed by a country in and both legs
other parts of the world racial profiling Suspecting someone of a
Confederacy The government of 11 crime because of their race
Southern states that broke away from and ratified Signed, or made officially valid
fought the Union to protect their way of life,
refugees People forced to leave their
which was based on slavery
countries due to war, persecution, or poverty
conservative Holds traditional views
round dances Indigenous folk dances
constitutions Collections of basic ideas on in which dancers form one large circle
which countries’ governments are based
sit-ins Protests in which activists refuse to
deported Removed from the country in leave a place until their demands are met
which a person lives sovereignty The authority of a country or
desegregated Ended the separation of group to govern themselves
two groups, usually of different races status An accepted position in a society
discrimination The unjust treatment of systemic racism Racism that is embedded
groups of people based on characteristics in the laws and practices of a society or
such as race, gender, or religion organization, rather than in the attitudes of
economic Related to the production and specific individuals
distribution of goods and services transgender Describes a person whose
exports Goods sold by one country gender identity is different from the sex
to another they were assigned at birth
gender The social, rather than biological, unalienable Not being able to be
characteristics of being male or female removed from the possessor
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