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