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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.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
2.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
3.What happened on July 20, 1969?
  • A.American astronauts landed on the Moon
  • B.California became a state
  • C.The first airplane flew
4.Why did the space program create jobs in many states?
  • A.It hired only cowboys
  • B.Rockets and computers needed engineers, scientists and factory workers
  • C.Astronauts needed farmers to fly
5.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 ended the use of cars
  • C.It was only used for candles
6.The Wright brothers flew the first powered airplane in 1903. Where?
  • A.Over the Grand Canyon
  • B.Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
  • C.In San Francisco
7.Why did many African Americans take part in the Great Migration?
  • A.Because the South had no farms
  • B.To find gold in California
  • C.To escape unfair laws and violence and to find better jobs
8.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

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

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  1. 1.The Great Migration
  2. 2.Factories offered jobs, and machines meant farms needed fewer workers
  3. 3.American astronauts landed on the Moon
  4. 4.Rockets and computers needed engineers, scientists and factory workers
  5. 5.It fueled cars and factories and built new oil towns
  6. 6.Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
  7. 7.To escape unfair laws and violence and to find better jobs
  8. 8.Paid for highways linking cities across the country

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