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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.What did the Interstate Highway Act of 1956 do?
  • A.Paid for highways linking cities across the country
  • B.Built the first railroad
  • C.Banned cars from cities
2.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
3.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
4.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
5.In what year was NASA created to run the US space program?
  • A.1776
  • B.1958
  • C.1865
6.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 Great Migration
  • C.The Homestead Act
7.Why did suburbs grow around cities after 1945?
  • A.Trains stopped running
  • B.Cities were closed
  • C.Cars and new highways let people live farther from work
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.Paid for highways linking cities across the country
  2. 2.Rockets and computers needed engineers, scientists and factory workers
  3. 3.Factories offered jobs, and machines meant farms needed fewer workers
  4. 4.More Americans lived in cities and towns than in the countryside
  5. 5.1958
  6. 6.The Great Migration
  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.