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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.How did air conditioning, common after the 1950s, change where people lived?
  • A.Everyone moved to Alaska
  • B.People left the South
  • C.More people moved to hot Southern and Western states
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 Great Migration
  • B.The Gold Rush
  • C.The Homestead Act
3.The Wright brothers flew the first powered airplane in 1903. Where?
  • A.Over the Grand Canyon
  • B.In San Francisco
  • C.Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
4.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
5.Why did millions of Americans move from farms to cities in the 1900s?
  • A.Cities had no factories
  • B.Farms became illegal
  • C.Factories offered jobs, and machines meant farms needed fewer workers
6.In what year was NASA created to run the US space program?
  • A.1865
  • B.1776
  • C.1958
7.Oil gushed from Spindletop in 1901. How did oil change the country?
  • A.It ended the use of cars
  • B.It fueled cars and factories and built new oil towns
  • C.It was only used for candles
8.What happened on July 20, 1969?
  • A.The first airplane flew
  • B.California became a state
  • C.American astronauts landed on the Moon

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

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  1. 1.More people moved to hot Southern and Western states
  2. 2.The Great Migration
  3. 3.Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
  4. 4.More Americans lived in cities and towns than in the countryside
  5. 5.Factories offered jobs, and machines meant farms needed fewer workers
  6. 6.1958
  7. 7.It fueled cars and factories and built new oil towns
  8. 8.American astronauts landed on the Moon

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