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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.Oil gushed from Spindletop in 1901. How did oil change the country?
  • A.It was only used for candles
  • B.It fueled cars and factories and built new oil towns
  • C.It ended the use of cars
2.The Wright brothers flew the first powered airplane in 1903. Where?
  • A.Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
  • B.Over the Grand Canyon
  • C.In San Francisco
3.In what year was NASA created to run the US space program?
  • A.1776
  • B.1865
  • C.1958
4.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 Gold Rush
  • B.The Great Migration
  • C.The Homestead Act
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.What did the Interstate Highway Act of 1956 do?
  • A.Built the first railroad
  • B.Paid for highways linking cities across the country
  • C.Banned cars from cities
7.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
8.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

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

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  1. 1.It fueled cars and factories and built new oil towns
  2. 2.Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
  3. 3.1958
  4. 4.The Great Migration
  5. 5.More people moved to hot Southern and Western states
  6. 6.Paid for highways linking cities across the country
  7. 7.Many more families owning cars
  8. 8.Cars and new highways let people live farther from work

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