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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.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
2.Why did suburbs grow around cities after 1945?
  • A.Cars and new highways let people live farther from work
  • B.Cities were closed
  • C.Trains stopped running
3.What happened on July 20, 1969?
  • A.The first airplane flew
  • B.California became a state
  • C.American astronauts landed on the Moon
4.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
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.Why did the space program create jobs in many states?
  • A.Rockets and computers needed engineers, scientists and factory workers
  • B.Astronauts needed farmers to fly
  • C.It hired only cowboys
7.What did the Interstate Highway Act of 1956 do?
  • A.Banned cars from cities
  • B.Paid for highways linking cities across the country
  • C.Built the first railroad
8.In 1920, for the first time, what did the census show?
  • A.More Americans lived in cities and towns than in the countryside
  • B.Every American lived on a farm
  • C.Nobody lived in cities

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

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  1. 1.To escape unfair laws and violence and to find better jobs
  2. 2.Cars and new highways let people live farther from work
  3. 3.American astronauts landed on the Moon
  4. 4.Many more families owning cars
  5. 5.Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
  6. 6.Rockets and computers needed engineers, scientists and factory workers
  7. 7.Paid for highways linking cities across the country
  8. 8.More Americans lived in cities and towns than in the countryside

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