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 21 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: Iron works in the hills of Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, Large plantations worked by enslaved Africans, Building ships from forest timber, Small family farms on stony fields
New EnglandMiddleSouthern
2.Sort each one: New England or Middle or Southern?
Sort: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire, Mills grinding grain into flour for export, Wheat and other grains, earning the name breadbasket colonies, Thin, rocky soil and long, cold winters, A long, warm growing season
New EnglandMiddleSouthern
3.Sort each one: New England or Middle or Southern?
Sort: Tobacco grown for sale in England, Whaling from ports such as Nantucket, The busy ports of New York and Philadelphia, Philadelphia, the largest colonial city by the 1770s, Fishing for cod off a rocky coast
New EnglandMiddleSouthern
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Answer key — New England, Middle or Southern?
Set 21. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Building ships from forest timber — New England 2. Iron works in the hills of Pennsylvania — Middle 3. Large plantations worked by enslaved Africans — Southern 4. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware — Middle 5. Small family farms on stony fields — New England
2.1. A long, warm growing season — Southern 2. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire — New England 3. Mills grinding grain into flour for export — Middle 4. Thin, rocky soil and long, cold winters — 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. Philadelphia, the largest colonial city by the 1770s — Middle 3. The busy ports of New York and Philadelphia — Middle 4. Tobacco grown for sale in England — Southern 5. Whaling from ports such as Nantucket — New England
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Eco.4.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.