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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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1.Oil gushed from Spindletop in 1901. How did oil change the country?
  • A.It was only used for candles
  • B.It ended the use of cars
  • C.It fueled cars and factories and built new oil towns
2.How did air conditioning, common after the 1950s, change where people lived?
  • A.Everyone moved to Alaska
  • B.More people moved to hot Southern and Western states
  • C.People left the South
3.Why did many African Americans take part in the Great Migration?
  • A.To find gold in California
  • B.Because the South had no farms
  • C.To escape unfair laws and violence and to find better jobs
4.In what year was NASA created to run the US space program?
  • A.1958
  • B.1865
  • C.1776
5.In 1920, for the first time, what did the census show?
  • A.Every American lived on a farm
  • B.Nobody lived in cities
  • C.More Americans lived in cities and towns than in the countryside
6.Henry Ford's assembly line, from 1913, made cars faster and cheaper. What did that lead to?
  • A.Fewer roads being built
  • B.The end of factories
  • C.Many more families owning cars
7.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
8.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

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

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  1. 1.It fueled cars and factories and built new oil towns
  2. 2.More people moved to hot Southern and Western states
  3. 3.To escape unfair laws and violence and to find better jobs
  4. 4.1958
  5. 5.More Americans lived in cities and towns than in the countryside
  6. 6.Many more families owning cars
  7. 7.Rockets and computers needed engineers, scientists and factory workers
  8. 8.Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

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