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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.Why did the space program create jobs in many states?
  • A.Astronauts needed farmers to fly
  • B.Rockets and computers needed engineers, scientists and factory workers
  • C.It hired only cowboys
2.What happened on July 20, 1969?
  • A.California became a state
  • B.American astronauts landed on the Moon
  • C.The first airplane flew
3.How did air conditioning, common after the 1950s, change where people lived?
  • A.More people moved to hot Southern and Western states
  • B.People left the South
  • C.Everyone moved to Alaska
4.The Wright brothers flew the first powered airplane in 1903. Where?
  • A.Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
  • B.In San Francisco
  • C.Over the Grand Canyon
5.Why did many African Americans take part in the Great Migration?
  • A.To escape unfair laws and violence and to find better jobs
  • B.Because the South had no farms
  • C.To find gold in California
6.In 1920, for the first time, what did the census show?
  • A.Nobody lived in cities
  • B.Every American lived on a farm
  • C.More Americans lived in cities and towns than in the countryside
7.Oil gushed from Spindletop in 1901. How did oil change the country?
  • A.It fueled cars and factories and built new oil towns
  • B.It ended the use of cars
  • C.It was only used for candles
8.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

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

Set 14. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Rockets and computers needed engineers, scientists and factory workers
  2. 2.American astronauts landed on the Moon
  3. 3.More people moved to hot Southern and Western states
  4. 4.Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
  5. 5.To escape unfair laws and violence and to find better jobs
  6. 6.More Americans lived in cities and towns than in the countryside
  7. 7.It fueled cars and factories and built new oil towns
  8. 8.Factories offered jobs, and machines meant farms needed fewer workers

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