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.

Set 24 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.

One paper per pupil

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.

Duties and Freedoms Together

D2.Civ.4.3-5

NameDate

Circle the best answer.

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

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

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

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

3.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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LessonPrint · D2.Civ.4.3-5 · Set 24 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — Duties and Freedoms Together

Set 24. Prints on its own sheet.

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

Teaching this next? Every Duty Protects a Freedom is the 45-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.

All Grade 3 to Grade 5 worksheets

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