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: Wheat and other grains, earning the name breadbasket colonies, Small family farms on stony fields, Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia, Whaling from ports such as Nantucket, Mills grinding grain into flour for export
New EnglandMiddleSouthern
2.Sort each one: New England or Middle or Southern?
Sort: Philadelphia, the largest colonial city by the 1770s, Tobacco grown for sale in England, Fishing for cod off a rocky coast, Town meetings to decide local matters, Settlers from many countries and many faiths
New EnglandMiddleSouthern
3.Sort each one: New England or Middle or Southern?
Sort: Large plantations worked by enslaved Africans, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire, Iron works in the hills of Pennsylvania, Thin, rocky soil and long, cold winters, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware
New EnglandMiddleSouthern
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Answer key — New England, Middle or Southern?
Set 15. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. 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
2.1. Fishing for cod off a rocky coast — New England 2. Philadelphia, the largest colonial city by the 1770s — Middle 3. Settlers from many countries and many faiths — Middle 4. Tobacco grown for sale in England — Southern 5. Town meetings to decide local matters — New England
3.1. Iron works in the hills of Pennsylvania — Middle 2. Large plantations worked by enslaved Africans — Southern 3. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire — New England 4. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware — Middle 5. Thin, rocky soil and long, cold winters — New England
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Eco.4.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.