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

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Circle the best answer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Answer key — Duties and Freedoms Together

Set 17. Prints on its own sheet.

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

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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.