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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.In 1920, for the first time, what did the census show?
  • A.More Americans lived in cities and towns than in the countryside
  • B.Every American lived on a farm
  • C.Nobody lived in cities
2.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 Homestead Act
  • B.The Gold Rush
  • C.The Great Migration
3.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
4.In what year was NASA created to run the US space program?
  • A.1865
  • B.1958
  • C.1776
5.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
6.What happened on July 20, 1969?
  • A.American astronauts landed on the Moon
  • B.The first airplane flew
  • C.California became a state
7.Why did suburbs grow around cities after 1945?
  • A.Cities were closed
  • B.Cars and new highways let people live farther from work
  • C.Trains stopped running
8.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

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

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  1. 1.More Americans lived in cities and towns than in the countryside
  2. 2.The Great Migration
  3. 3.More people moved to hot Southern and Western states
  4. 4.1958
  5. 5.Factories offered jobs, and machines meant farms needed fewer workers
  6. 6.American astronauts landed on the Moon
  7. 7.Cars and new highways let people live farther from work
  8. 8.Many more families owning cars

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