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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

NameDate

Choose the best answer.

1.In what year was NASA created to run the US space program?
  • A.1958
  • B.1865
  • C.1776
2.Why did millions of Americans move from farms to cities in the 1900s?
  • A.Cities had no factories
  • B.Farms became illegal
  • C.Factories offered jobs, and machines meant farms needed fewer workers
3.Why did many African Americans take part in the Great Migration?
  • A.Because the South had no farms
  • B.To find gold in California
  • C.To escape unfair laws and violence and to find better jobs
4.The Wright brothers flew the first powered airplane in 1903. Where?
  • A.Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
  • B.Over the Grand Canyon
  • C.In San Francisco
5.Why did suburbs grow around cities after 1945?
  • A.Trains stopped running
  • B.Cars and new highways let people live farther from work
  • C.Cities were closed
6.How did air conditioning, common after the 1950s, change where people lived?
  • A.People left the South
  • B.More people moved to hot Southern and Western states
  • C.Everyone moved to Alaska
7.Henry Ford's assembly line, from 1913, made cars faster and cheaper. What did that lead to?
  • A.Many more families owning cars
  • B.The end of factories
  • C.Fewer roads being built
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

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  1. 1.1958
  2. 2.Factories offered jobs, and machines meant farms needed fewer workers
  3. 3.To escape unfair laws and violence and to find better jobs
  4. 4.Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
  5. 5.Cars and new highways let people live farther from work
  6. 6.More people moved to hot Southern and Western states
  7. 7.Many more families owning cars
  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.