Duties and Freedoms Together is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on rules that create duties and protect freedoms, aligned to Common Core standard D2.Civ.4.3-5. It prints 8 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Duties and Freedoms Together

D2.Civ.4.3-5

NameDate

Circle the best answer.

1.Railways needed an Act. What duty did that create for the company?

A.To carry coal cheaply
B.To lay track quickly
C.To persuade Parliament before taking anybody's land

2.Why do rules usually create a duty and a freedom together?

A.A freedom for one person needs somebody else to be obliged
B.Rules are written in pairs
C.It makes them longer

3.Railways needed an Act. What freedom did that protect?

A.The right to build track
B.The right to free travel
C.A landowner's freedom not to have land taken without consent

4.A rule says tolls must be posted. What duty does it create?

A.Boats must go faster
B.The company must publish its charges
C.Coal must be cheaper

5.A rule says tolls must be posted. What freedom does it protect?

A.A boat owner's freedom to know the price before agreeing
B.The freedom to avoid tolls
C.The company's freedom to charge anything

6.Workhouses kept registers. What freedom did that protect?

A.Freedom from work
B.Freedom to leave whenever
C.Freedom from being admitted or refused without any record

7.Workhouses kept registers. What duty did that create?

A.The poor had to write
B.The guardians had to record every admission
C.The county had to build more

8.Fares had to be published. What duty and freedom?

A.No duty, no freedom
B.The duty to run trains, protecting freedom of speech
C.The duty to display prices, protecting the freedom to choose to travel or not

LessonPrint · D2.Civ.4.3-5 · Set 16 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — Duties and Freedoms Together

Set 16. Prints on its own sheet.

1.To persuade Parliament before taking anybody's land
2.A freedom for one person needs somebody else to be obliged
3.A landowner's freedom not to have land taken without consent
4.The company must publish its charges
5.A boat owner's freedom to know the price before agreeing
6.Freedom from being admitted or refused without any record
7.The guardians had to record every admission
8.The duty to display prices, protecting the freedom to choose to travel or not

More practice for D2.Civ.4.3-5

Explain how groups make rules that share out duties and protect freedoms.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Civ.4.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.