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 14 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: Rice and indigo grown in South Carolina, Small family farms on stony fields, The busy ports of New York and Philadelphia, Fishing for cod off a rocky coast, Settlers from many countries and many faiths
New EnglandMiddleSouthern
2.Sort each one: New England or Middle or Southern?
Sort: Whaling from ports such as Nantucket, Mills grinding grain into flour for export, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire, Wheat and other grains, earning the name breadbasket colonies, Tobacco grown for sale in England
New EnglandMiddleSouthern
3.Sort each one: New England or Middle or Southern?
Sort: Town meetings to decide local matters, Charleston, a port that shipped rice, Thin, rocky soil and long, cold winters, Iron works in the hills of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, the largest colonial city by the 1770s
New EnglandMiddleSouthern
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Answer key — New England, Middle or Southern?
Set 14. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Fishing for cod off a rocky coast — New England 2. Rice and indigo grown in South Carolina — Southern 3. Settlers from many countries and many faiths — Middle 4. Small family farms on stony fields — New England 5. The busy ports of New York and Philadelphia — Middle
2.1. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire — New England 2. Mills grinding grain into flour for export — Middle 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. Iron works in the hills of Pennsylvania — Middle 3. Philadelphia, the largest colonial city by the 1770s — Middle 4. Thin, rocky soil and long, cold winters — New England 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.