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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.Henry Ford's assembly line, from 1913, made cars faster and cheaper. What did that lead to?
  • A.The end of factories
  • B.Fewer roads being built
  • C.Many more families owning cars
2.Why did suburbs grow around cities after 1945?
  • A.Trains stopped running
  • B.Cars and new highways let people live farther from work
  • C.Cities were closed
3.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
4.Why did the space program create jobs in many states?
  • A.Rockets and computers needed engineers, scientists and factory workers
  • B.It hired only cowboys
  • C.Astronauts needed farmers to fly
5.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
6.What happened on July 20, 1969?
  • A.American astronauts landed on the Moon
  • B.The first airplane flew
  • C.California became a state
7.Oil gushed from Spindletop in 1901. How did oil change the country?
  • A.It was only used for candles
  • B.It fueled cars and factories and built new oil towns
  • C.It ended the use of cars
8.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

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

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  1. 1.Many more families owning cars
  2. 2.Cars and new highways let people live farther from work
  3. 3.Factories offered jobs, and machines meant farms needed fewer workers
  4. 4.Rockets and computers needed engineers, scientists and factory workers
  5. 5.Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
  6. 6.American astronauts landed on the Moon
  7. 7.It fueled cars and factories and built new oil towns
  8. 8.To escape unfair laws and violence and to find better jobs

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