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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 escape unfair laws and violence and to find better jobs
  • B.To find gold in California
  • C.Because the South had no farms
2.What happened on July 20, 1969?
  • A.American astronauts landed on the Moon
  • B.The first airplane flew
  • C.California became a state
3.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
4.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
5.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
6.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 Homestead Act
  • B.The Great Migration
  • C.The Gold Rush
7.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
8.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

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

Set 9. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.To escape unfair laws and violence and to find better jobs
  2. 2.American astronauts landed on the Moon
  3. 3.More people moved to hot Southern and Western states
  4. 4.Cars and new highways let people live farther from work
  5. 5.Paid for highways linking cities across the country
  6. 6.The Great Migration
  7. 7.Rockets and computers needed engineers, scientists and factory workers
  8. 8.Factories offered jobs, and machines meant farms needed fewer workers

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