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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.What happened on July 20, 1969?
  • A.American astronauts landed on the Moon
  • B.The first airplane flew
  • C.California became a state
2.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
3.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
4.Oil gushed from Spindletop in 1901. How did oil change the country?
  • A.It ended the use of cars
  • B.It fueled cars and factories and built new oil towns
  • C.It was only used for candles
5.In what year was NASA created to run the US space program?
  • A.1865
  • B.1958
  • C.1776
6.Henry Ford's assembly line, from 1913, made cars faster and cheaper. What did that lead to?
  • A.The end of factories
  • B.Many more families owning cars
  • C.Fewer roads being built
7.Why did millions of Americans move from farms to cities in the 1900s?
  • A.Factories offered jobs, and machines meant farms needed fewer workers
  • B.Farms became illegal
  • C.Cities had no factories
8.From about 1910 to 1970, millions of African Americans moved from the South to cities in the North and West. What is this called?
  • A.The Gold Rush
  • B.The Homestead Act
  • C.The Great Migration

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

Set 11. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.American astronauts landed on the Moon
  2. 2.To escape unfair laws and violence and to find better jobs
  3. 3.Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
  4. 4.It fueled cars and factories and built new oil towns
  5. 5.1958
  6. 6.Many more families owning cars
  7. 7.Factories offered jobs, and machines meant farms needed fewer workers
  8. 8.The Great Migration

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