That is exactly the reason.

ASCII defines characters 0-31 as non-printing control codes. Here's an extract from the ascii(7) manual page from a random Linux system (man ascii), up to and including CR (13):

   Oct   Dec   Hex   Char                       
   ─────────────────────────────────────────────
   000   0     00    NUL '\0'                    
   001   1     01    SOH (start of heading)     
   002   2     02    STX (start of text)         
   003   3     03    ETX (end of text)           
   004   4     04    EOT (end of transmission)   
   005   5     05    ENQ (enquiry)               
   006   6     06    ACK (acknowledge)           
   007   7     07    BEL '\a' (bell)             
   010   8     08    BS  '\b' (backspace)       
   011   9     09    HT  '\t' (horizontal tab)  
   012   10    0A    LF  '\n' (new line)        
   013   11    0B    VT  '\v' (vertical tab)    
   014   12    0C    FF  '\f' (form feed)       
   015   13    0D    CR  '\r' (carriage ret)    

Conventionally these characters are generated with Control and the letter relating to the character required. Teletypes and early terminal keyboards had 'BELL' written above the G key for this reason.

The standards document that defined ASCII is ASA X3.4-1963, which was published by the American Standards Association in 1963. I can't find the original document on their website, but this extract from the original document shows the character table, including the control codes above.

That is exactly the reason.

ASCII defines characters 0-31 as non-printing control codes. Here's an extract from the ascii(7) manual page from a random Linux system (man ascii), up to and including CR (13):

   Oct   Dec   Hex   Char                       
   ─────────────────────────────────────────────
   000   0     00    NUL '\0'                    
   001   1     01    SOH (start of heading)     
   002   2     02    STX (start of text)         
   003   3     03    ETX (end of text)           
   004   4     04    EOT (end of transmission)   
   005   5     05    ENQ (enquiry)               
   006   6     06    ACK (acknowledge)           
   007   7     07    BEL '\a' (bell)             
   010   8     08    BS  '\b' (backspace)       
   011   9     09    HT  '\t' (horizontal tab)  
   012   10    0A    LF  '\n' (new line)        
   013   11    0B    VT  '\v' (vertical tab)    
   014   12    0C    FF  '\f' (form feed)       
   015   13    0D    CR  '\r' (carriage ret)    

Conventionally these characters are generated with Control and the letter relating to the character required. Teletypes and early terminal keyboards had 'BELL' written above the G key for this reason.

The standards document that defined ASCII is ASA X3.4-1963, which was published by the American Standards Association in 1963. I can't find the original document on their website, but this extract from the original document shows the character table, including the control codes above.