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 9 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: Thin, rocky soil and long, cold winters, A long, warm growing season, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire, The busy ports of New York and Philadelphia, Philadelphia, the largest colonial city by the 1770s
New EnglandMiddleSouthern
2.Sort each one: New England or Middle or Southern?
Sort: Few towns, with plantations spread along rivers, Whaling from ports such as Nantucket, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, Fishing for cod off a rocky coast, Wheat and other grains, earning the name breadbasket colonies
New EnglandMiddleSouthern
3.Sort each one: New England or Middle or Southern?
Sort: Iron works in the hills of Pennsylvania, Mills grinding grain into flour for export, Building ships from forest timber, Small family farms on stony fields, Rice and indigo grown in South Carolina
New EnglandMiddleSouthern
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Answer key — New England, Middle or Southern?
Set 9. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A long, warm growing season — Southern 2. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire — New England 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
2.1. Few towns, with plantations spread along rivers — Southern 2. Fishing for cod off a rocky coast — New England 3. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware — Middle 4. Whaling from ports such as Nantucket — New England 5. Wheat and other grains, earning the name breadbasket colonies — Middle
3.1. Building ships from forest timber — New England 2. Iron works in the hills of Pennsylvania — Middle 3. Mills grinding grain into flour for export — Middle 4. Rice and indigo grown in South Carolina — Southern 5. Small family farms on stony fields — New England
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Eco.4.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.