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A Failure Overseas, a Wage Cut Here is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on how events elsewhere affect people here, aligned to Common Core standard D2.Geo.12.3-5. It prints 2 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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A Failure Overseas, a Wage Cut Here

D2.Geo.12.3-5

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Draw a line from each event to what it caused here.

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Answer key — A Failure Overseas, a Wage Cut Here

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  1. 1.1. A war closing a sea route — A (Cotton grows dear and mill wages are cut) 2. A storm wrecking vessels far offshore — D (Cargo is delayed and prices climb) 3. Disease among cattle in a neighbouring region — C (Markets close and meat is scarce here) 4. A crop failure in a grain-exporting country — B (Bread costs more in every district here)
  2. 2.1. A financial panic in a distant capital — D (Loans dry up and new mills are not built) 2. A cheaper canal route opening elsewhere — C (Shippers bypass this harbour and dues fall) 3. New farmland opened on another continent — B (Grain floods in and upland farming collapses) 4. A boom in shipbuilding abroad — A (Timber prices rise on the harbour's quay)

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Geo.12.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.