Colonial America

Grade 5 Social Studies Worksheet

Read each fact. Circle the colonial region it is about.

1. 1.

   Charles Town was a busy southern port.

   • New England colonies
   • Middle colonies
   • Southern colonies
2. 2.

   Iron was made in furnaces in the region.

   • New England colonies
   • Middle colonies
   • Southern colonies
3. 3.

   Settlers hoped to grow rich from cash crops.

   • New England colonies
   • Middle colonies
   • Southern colonies
4. 4.

   Tobacco wore out the soil, so planters sought new land.

   • New England colonies
   • Middle colonies
   • Southern colonies
5. 5.

   Many towns grew up around a meetinghouse and a village green.

   • New England colonies
   • Middle colonies
   • Southern colonies
6. 6.

   Merchants traded fish and timber with the West Indies.

   • New England colonies
   • Middle colonies
   • Southern colonies
7. 7.

   Shipbuilding and fishing were important jobs.

   • New England colonies
   • Middle colonies
   • Southern colonies
8. 8.

   Jamestown, the first lasting English settlement, was here.

   • New England colonies
   • Middle colonies
   • Southern colonies
9. 9.

   Harvard College opened here to train ministers.

   • New England colonies
   • Middle colonies
   • Southern colonies
10. 10.

    Farmers sent grain and flour down rivers to the ports.

    • New England colonies
    • Middle colonies
    • Southern colonies