New England, Middle or Southern? is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on how the three colonial regions specialized and traded, aligned to C3 Framework indicator D2.Eco.4.3-5. It prints 3 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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New England, Middle or Southern?
D2.Eco.4.3-5
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Sort each one into the colonial region it describes.
1.Sort each one: New England or Middle or Southern?
Sort: Few towns, with plantations spread along rivers, Building ships from forest timber, Philadelphia, the largest colonial city by the 1770s, Mills grinding grain into flour for export, Fishing for cod off a rocky coast
New EnglandMiddleSouthern
2.Sort each one: New England or Middle or Southern?
Sort: Small family farms on stony fields, Whaling from ports such as Nantucket, Tobacco grown for sale in England, Wheat and other grains, earning the name breadbasket colonies, Iron works in the hills of Pennsylvania
New EnglandMiddleSouthern
3.Sort each one: New England or Middle or Southern?
Sort: The busy ports of New York and Philadelphia, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire, Town meetings to decide local matters, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, Charleston, a port that shipped rice
New EnglandMiddleSouthern
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Answer key — New England, Middle or Southern?
Set 10. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Building ships from forest timber — New England 2. Few towns, with plantations spread along rivers — Southern 3. Fishing for cod off a rocky coast — New England 4. Mills grinding grain into flour for export — Middle 5. Philadelphia, the largest colonial city by the 1770s — Middle
2.1. Iron works in the hills of Pennsylvania — Middle 2. Small family farms on stony fields — New England 3. Tobacco grown for sale in England — Southern 4. Whaling from ports such as Nantucket — New England 5. Wheat and other grains, earning the name breadbasket colonies — Middle
3.1. Charleston, a port that shipped rice — Southern 2. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire — New England 3. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware — Middle 4. The busy ports of New York and Philadelphia — Middle 5. Town meetings to decide local matters — New England
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Eco.4.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.