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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.What did the Interstate Highway Act of 1956 do?
  • A.Banned cars from cities
  • B.Built the first railroad
  • C.Paid for highways linking cities across the country
2.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
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.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
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.How did air conditioning, common after the 1950s, change where people lived?
  • A.People left the South
  • B.Everyone moved to Alaska
  • C.More people moved to hot Southern and Western states
7.The Wright brothers flew the first powered airplane in 1903. Where?
  • A.In San Francisco
  • B.Over the Grand Canyon
  • C.Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
8.In what year was NASA created to run the US space program?
  • A.1865
  • B.1958
  • C.1776

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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.It fueled cars and factories and built new oil towns
  3. 3.American astronauts landed on the Moon
  4. 4.The Great Migration
  5. 5.Factories offered jobs, and machines meant farms needed fewer workers
  6. 6.More people moved to hot Southern and Western states
  7. 7.Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
  8. 8.1958

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