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.
Set 11 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.
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, Town meetings to decide local matters, Fishing for cod off a rocky coast, Settlers from many countries and many faiths, Iron works in the hills of Pennsylvania
New EnglandMiddleSouthern
2.Sort each one: New England or Middle or Southern?
Sort: Small family farms on stony fields, The busy ports of New York and Philadelphia, Rice and indigo grown in South Carolina, Philadelphia, the largest colonial city by the 1770s, Building ships from forest timber
New EnglandMiddleSouthern
3.Sort each one: New England or Middle or Southern?
Sort: Mills grinding grain into flour for export, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire, Thin, rocky soil and long, cold winters, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia
New EnglandMiddleSouthern
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Answer key — New England, Middle or Southern?
Set 11. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Few towns, with plantations spread along rivers — Southern 2. Fishing for cod off a rocky coast — New England 3. Iron works in the hills of Pennsylvania — Middle 4. Settlers from many countries and many faiths — Middle 5. Town meetings to decide local matters — New England
2.1. Building ships from forest timber — New England 2. Philadelphia, the largest colonial city by the 1770s — Middle 3. Rice and indigo grown in South Carolina — Southern 4. Small family farms on stony fields — New England 5. The busy ports of New York and Philadelphia — Middle
3.1. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire — New England 2. Mills grinding grain into flour for export — Middle 3. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware — Middle 4. Thin, rocky soil and long, cold winters — New England 5. Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia — Southern
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Eco.4.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.