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: The busy ports of New York and Philadelphia, Large plantations worked by enslaved Africans, Fishing for cod off a rocky coast, Thin, rocky soil and long, cold winters, Philadelphia, the largest colonial city by the 1770s
New EnglandMiddleSouthern
2.Sort each one: New England or Middle or Southern?
Sort: Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia, Wheat and other grains, earning the name breadbasket colonies, Mills grinding grain into flour for export, Whaling from ports such as Nantucket, Small family farms on stony fields
New EnglandMiddleSouthern
3.Sort each one: New England or Middle or Southern?
Sort: Settlers from many countries and many faiths, Building ships from forest timber, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire, Charleston, a port that shipped rice, Iron works in the hills of Pennsylvania
New EnglandMiddleSouthern
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Answer key — New England, Middle or Southern?
Set 12. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Fishing for cod off a rocky coast — New England 2. Large plantations worked by enslaved Africans — Southern 3. Philadelphia, the largest colonial city by the 1770s — Middle 4. The busy ports of New York and Philadelphia — Middle 5. Thin, rocky soil and long, cold winters — New England
2.1. Mills grinding grain into flour for export — Middle 2. Small family farms on stony fields — New England 3. Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia — Southern 4. Whaling from ports such as Nantucket — New England 5. Wheat and other grains, earning the name breadbasket colonies — Middle
3.1. Building ships from forest timber — New England 2. Charleston, a port that shipped rice — Southern 3. Iron works in the hills of Pennsylvania — Middle 4. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire — New England 5. Settlers from many countries and many faiths — Middle
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Eco.4.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.