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 22 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: Town meetings to decide local matters, Iron works in the hills of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia, The busy ports of New York and Philadelphia, Fishing for cod off a rocky coast
New EnglandMiddleSouthern
2.Sort each one: New England or Middle or Southern?
Sort: Small family farms on stony fields, Tobacco grown for sale in England, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire, Wheat and other grains, earning the name breadbasket colonies, Settlers from many countries and many faiths
New EnglandMiddleSouthern
3.Sort each one: New England or Middle or Southern?
Sort: Philadelphia, the largest colonial city by the 1770s, Building ships from forest timber, Whaling from ports such as Nantucket, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, Large plantations worked by enslaved Africans
New EnglandMiddleSouthern
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Answer key — New England, Middle or Southern?
Set 22. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Fishing for cod off a rocky coast — New England 2. Iron works in the hills of Pennsylvania — Middle 3. The busy ports of New York and Philadelphia — Middle 4. Town meetings to decide local matters — New England 5. Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia — Southern
2.1. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire — New England 2. Settlers from many countries and many faiths — Middle 3. Small family farms on stony fields — New England 4. Tobacco grown for sale in England — Southern 5. Wheat and other grains, earning the name breadbasket colonies — Middle
3.1. Building ships from forest timber — New England 2. Large plantations worked by enslaved Africans — Southern 3. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware — Middle 4. Philadelphia, the largest colonial city by the 1770s — Middle 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.