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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.Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
  • B.Over the Grand Canyon
  • C.In San Francisco
2.Why did many African Americans take part in the Great Migration?
  • A.Because the South had no farms
  • B.To escape unfair laws and violence and to find better jobs
  • C.To find gold in California
3.Why did the space program create jobs in many states?
  • A.It hired only cowboys
  • B.Rockets and computers needed engineers, scientists and factory workers
  • C.Astronauts needed farmers to fly
4.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
5.What happened on July 20, 1969?
  • A.The first airplane flew
  • B.California became a state
  • C.American astronauts landed on the Moon
6.What did the Interstate Highway Act of 1956 do?
  • A.Banned cars from cities
  • B.Built the first railroad
  • C.Paid for highways linking cities across the country
7.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
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.To escape unfair laws and violence and to find better jobs
  3. 3.Rockets and computers needed engineers, scientists and factory workers
  4. 4.The Great Migration
  5. 5.American astronauts landed on the Moon
  6. 6.Paid for highways linking cities across the country
  7. 7.Cars and new highways let people live farther from work
  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.