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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

NameDate

Choose the best answer.

1.In what year was NASA created to run the US space program?
  • A.1958
  • B.1865
  • C.1776
2.In 1920, for the first time, what did the census show?
  • A.Every American lived on a farm
  • B.More Americans lived in cities and towns than in the countryside
  • C.Nobody lived in cities
3.Why did many African Americans take part in the Great Migration?
  • A.To find gold in California
  • B.To escape unfair laws and violence and to find better jobs
  • C.Because the South had no farms
4.What happened on July 20, 1969?
  • A.California became a state
  • B.The first airplane flew
  • C.American astronauts landed on the Moon
5.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
6.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
7.How did air conditioning, common after the 1950s, change where people lived?
  • A.More people moved to hot Southern and Western states
  • B.People left the South
  • C.Everyone moved to Alaska
8.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

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

Set 2. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1958
  2. 2.More Americans lived in cities and towns than in the countryside
  3. 3.To escape unfair laws and violence and to find better jobs
  4. 4.American astronauts landed on the Moon
  5. 5.Rockets and computers needed engineers, scientists and factory workers
  6. 6.Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
  7. 7.More people moved to hot Southern and Western states
  8. 8.Factories offered jobs, and machines meant farms needed fewer workers

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