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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.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
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.What happened on July 20, 1969?
  • A.California became a state
  • B.The first airplane flew
  • C.American astronauts landed on the Moon
4.What did the Interstate Highway Act of 1956 do?
  • A.Built the first railroad
  • B.Paid for highways linking cities across the country
  • C.Banned cars from cities
5.Why did suburbs grow around cities after 1945?
  • A.Cars and new highways let people live farther from work
  • B.Trains stopped running
  • C.Cities were closed
6.Why did the space program create jobs in many states?
  • A.Astronauts needed farmers to fly
  • B.It hired only cowboys
  • C.Rockets and computers needed engineers, scientists and factory workers
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.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 was only used for candles
  • C.It ended the use of cars

LessonPrint · D2.Geo.11.3-5 · Set 17 · free to copy for classroom use

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

Set 17. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Many more families owning cars
  2. 2.The Great Migration
  3. 3.American astronauts landed on the Moon
  4. 4.Paid for highways linking cities across the country
  5. 5.Cars and new highways let people live farther from work
  6. 6.Rockets and computers needed engineers, scientists and factory workers
  7. 7.Factories offered jobs, and machines meant farms needed fewer workers
  8. 8.It fueled cars and factories and built new oil towns

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