This was the title given to Russia's male rulers before 1917.
What is tsar?
100
This set of laws established the first national government in the United States.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
100
When a legislature has two houses or bodies, it is called _________________.
What is bicameral?
100
This man was the first tsar of Russia.
Who is Ivan the Terrible?
200
This man is the current president of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
200
This man has been the Russian president since 2008.
Who is Dmitry Medvedev?
200
This term refers to a government structure that divides power between a central, national government and several smaller local governments.
What is federalism?
200
What is it called when the same person is both the head of the government AND the head of the church?
What is caesaropapism?
200
This man is the current vice-president of the United States.
Who is Joe Biden?
300
The last tsar of Russia was this man.
Who is Nicholas II?
300
This was the name given to the local workers' councils spread throughout the U.S.S.R.
What is a soviet?
300
Name the two bodies that make up the U.S. Congress.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
300
This was the Soviet policy of "restructuring".
What is perestroika?
300
This document establishes the laws and structure of government in the United States.
What is the Constitution?
400
This man led the Bolsheviks when they took power in Russia, but died soon after due to a series of strokes.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
400
Promoted during the 1980s as a way to make the Soviet government look better, this idea means "openness".
What is glasnost?
400
This is the constitutional division of government power among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
What is the separation of powers?
400
This is the system that prevents one branch of the U.S. government from getting too much power.
What is checks and balances?
400
This man was the last person to serve as the leader of the Soviet Union.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
500
This tsar worked to modernize Russia while still maintaining absolute control over the country.
Who is Peter the Great?
500
This body, which is now the lower house in the legislative branch, was created in the early 1900s by Tsar Nicholas II.
What is the Duma?
500
This power allows the Supreme Court to declare any act of the president or of Congress to be unconstitutional and void.
What is judicial review?
500
Beginning in the late 1500s, all of pre-revolutionary Russia's were _____________, which meant that they had total and absolute power over the country.
What is autocrats?
500
Name the two houses that make up the top level of the Russian legislative branch.