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 17 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: Settlers from many countries and many faiths, A long, warm growing season, Mills grinding grain into flour for export, Building ships from forest timber, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire
New EnglandMiddleSouthern
2.Sort each one: New England or Middle or Southern?
Sort: Wheat and other grains, earning the name breadbasket colonies, Rice and indigo grown in South Carolina, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, 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: Philadelphia, the largest colonial city by the 1770s, The busy ports of New York and Philadelphia, Fishing for cod off a rocky coast, Thin, rocky soil and long, cold winters, Large plantations worked by enslaved Africans
New EnglandMiddleSouthern
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Answer key — New England, Middle or Southern?
Set 17. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A long, warm growing season — Southern 2. Building ships from forest timber — New England 3. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire — New England 4. Mills grinding grain into flour for export — Middle 5. Settlers from many countries and many faiths — Middle
2.1. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware — Middle 2. Rice and indigo grown in South Carolina — Southern 3. Small family farms on stony fields — New England 4. Whaling from ports such as Nantucket — New England 5. Wheat and other grains, earning the name breadbasket colonies — Middle
3.1. 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
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Eco.4.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.