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Cities, Cars and Rockets: The 1900s is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on how the 1900s changed where and how Americans worked, aligned to C3 Framework indicator D2.Geo.11.3-5. 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 students 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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Cities, Cars and Rockets: The 1900s

D2.Geo.11.3-5

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Choose the best answer.

1.The Wright brothers flew the first powered airplane in 1903. Where?
  • A.Over the Grand Canyon
  • B.In San Francisco
  • C.Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
2.What happened on July 20, 1969?
  • A.American astronauts landed on the Moon
  • B.California became a state
  • C.The first airplane flew
3.Why did the space program create jobs in many states?
  • A.Rockets and computers needed engineers, scientists and factory workers
  • B.Astronauts needed farmers to fly
  • C.It hired only cowboys
4.Why did many African Americans take part in the Great Migration?
  • A.To find gold in California
  • B.To escape unfair laws and violence and to find better jobs
  • C.Because the South had no farms
5.In what year was NASA created to run the US space program?
  • A.1776
  • B.1958
  • C.1865
6.Henry Ford's assembly line, from 1913, made cars faster and cheaper. What did that lead to?
  • A.Many more families owning cars
  • B.Fewer roads being built
  • C.The end of factories
7.Why did millions of Americans move from farms to cities in the 1900s?
  • A.Farms became illegal
  • B.Cities had no factories
  • C.Factories offered jobs, and machines meant farms needed fewer workers
8.How did air conditioning, common after the 1950s, change where people lived?
  • A.More people moved to hot Southern and Western states
  • B.Everyone moved to Alaska
  • C.People left the South

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Answer key — Cities, Cars and Rockets: The 1900s

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  1. 1.Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
  2. 2.American astronauts landed on the Moon
  3. 3.Rockets and computers needed engineers, scientists and factory workers
  4. 4.To escape unfair laws and violence and to find better jobs
  5. 5.1958
  6. 6.Many more families owning cars
  7. 7.Factories offered jobs, and machines meant farms needed fewer workers
  8. 8.More people moved to hot Southern and Western states

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Geo.11.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.