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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 millions of Americans move from farms to cities in the 1900s?
  • A.Factories offered jobs, and machines meant farms needed fewer workers
  • B.Cities had no factories
  • C.Farms became illegal
2.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
3.Why did suburbs grow around cities after 1945?
  • A.Trains stopped running
  • B.Cities were closed
  • C.Cars and new highways let people live farther from work
4.Oil gushed from Spindletop in 1901. How did oil change the country?
  • A.It ended the use of cars
  • B.It was only used for candles
  • C.It fueled cars and factories and built new oil towns
5.Why did the space program create jobs in many states?
  • A.It hired only cowboys
  • B.Astronauts needed farmers to fly
  • C.Rockets and computers needed engineers, scientists and factory workers
6.How did air conditioning, common after the 1950s, change where people lived?
  • A.People left the South
  • B.Everyone moved to Alaska
  • C.More people moved to hot Southern and Western states
7.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
8.Henry Ford's assembly line, from 1913, made cars faster and cheaper. What did that lead to?
  • A.Fewer roads being built
  • B.The end of factories
  • C.Many more families owning cars

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

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  1. 1.Factories offered jobs, and machines meant farms needed fewer workers
  2. 2.More Americans lived in cities and towns than in the countryside
  3. 3.Cars and new highways let people live farther from work
  4. 4.It fueled cars and factories and built new oil towns
  5. 5.Rockets and computers needed engineers, scientists and factory workers
  6. 6.More people moved to hot Southern and Western states
  7. 7.Paid for highways linking cities across the country
  8. 8.Many more families owning cars

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