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Agreeing Together, Giving Up Something is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on benefits and challenges of working together, aligned to Common Core standard D2.Civ.6.3-5. 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 pupils 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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Agreeing Together, Giving Up Something

D2.Civ.6.3-5

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Circle the best answer.

1.What does voting together cost an individual member?
  • A.Their salary
  • B.Sometimes voting against what their own constituents want
  • C.Their seat in the House
2.What does acting together not guarantee?
  • A.That the outcome is right, only that it can be carried
  • B.That everybody agrees
  • C.Nothing at all
3.Why did the rural member's objection not stop the paper?
  • A.Rural members cannot vote
  • B.He spoke too late
  • C.He was one voice against a majority that voted the other way
4.What do they give up by signing?
  • A.Their currencies
  • B.Their borders
  • C.The freedom to sell those goods to a third country
5.Two governments sign a supply agreement. What do they gain?
  • A.Certainty of timber and machine tools at a fixed price
  • B.Cheaper shipping
  • C.Shorter borders
6.Members of one party vote together in a division. What does that gain?
  • A.Debates get shorter
  • B.A programme can pass rather than being picked apart clause by clause
  • C.Members get on
7.Councils across a country share one materials allocation. Benefit?
  • A.Materials go where destruction was worst rather than where bidding is strongest
  • B.Councils merge
  • C.Bricks get cheaper
8.What is the difficulty with a shared allocation?
  • A.Councils dislike forms
  • B.A district with real need can be told to wait for a worse one
  • C.Allocation is slow to write

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Answer key — Agreeing Together, Giving Up Something

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  1. 1.Sometimes voting against what their own constituents want
  2. 2.That the outcome is right, only that it can be carried
  3. 3.He was one voice against a majority that voted the other way
  4. 4.The freedom to sell those goods to a third country
  5. 5.Certainty of timber and machine tools at a fixed price
  6. 6.A programme can pass rather than being picked apart clause by clause
  7. 7.Materials go where destruction was worst rather than where bidding is strongest
  8. 8.A district with real need can be told to wait for a worse one

More practice for D2.Civ.6.3-5

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Civ.6.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.