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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 happened on July 20, 1969?
  • A.American astronauts landed on the Moon
  • B.California became a state
  • C.The first airplane flew
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.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
4.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
5.How did air conditioning, common after the 1950s, change where people lived?
  • A.Everyone moved to Alaska
  • B.More people moved to hot Southern and Western states
  • C.People left the South
6.Henry Ford's assembly line, from 1913, made cars faster and cheaper. What did that lead to?
  • A.The end of factories
  • B.Many more families owning cars
  • C.Fewer roads being built
7.In what year was NASA created to run the US space program?
  • A.1958
  • B.1865
  • C.1776
8.Why did many African Americans take part in the Great Migration?
  • A.To escape unfair laws and violence and to find better jobs
  • B.Because the South had no farms
  • C.To find gold in California

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

Set 5. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.American astronauts landed on the Moon
  2. 2.Cars and new highways let people live farther from work
  3. 3.More Americans lived in cities and towns than in the countryside
  4. 4.Paid for highways linking cities across the country
  5. 5.More people moved to hot Southern and Western states
  6. 6.Many more families owning cars
  7. 7.1958
  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.