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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

NameDate

Choose the best answer.

1.How did air conditioning, common after the 1950s, change where people lived?
  • A.Everyone moved to Alaska
  • B.People left the South
  • C.More people moved to hot Southern and Western states
2.What did the Interstate Highway Act of 1956 do?
  • A.Paid for highways linking cities across the country
  • B.Banned cars from cities
  • C.Built the first railroad
3.What happened on July 20, 1969?
  • A.American astronauts landed on the Moon
  • B.The first airplane flew
  • C.California became a state
4.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
5.Why did millions of Americans move from farms to cities in the 1900s?
  • A.Farms became illegal
  • B.Factories offered jobs, and machines meant farms needed fewer workers
  • C.Cities had no factories
6.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
7.Oil gushed from Spindletop in 1901. How did oil change the country?
  • A.It ended the use of cars
  • B.It fueled cars and factories and built new oil towns
  • C.It was only used for candles
8.In what year was NASA created to run the US space program?
  • A.1776
  • B.1958
  • C.1865

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

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  1. 1.More people moved to hot Southern and Western states
  2. 2.Paid for highways linking cities across the country
  3. 3.American astronauts landed on the Moon
  4. 4.More Americans lived in cities and towns than in the countryside
  5. 5.Factories offered jobs, and machines meant farms needed fewer workers
  6. 6.Rockets and computers needed engineers, scientists and factory workers
  7. 7.It fueled cars and factories and built new oil towns
  8. 8.1958

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