be familiar with colonies that formed the new england colonies?

Question

midland, southern and new england
whats states formed them

Answer 1

New England - Connecticut, Massachusettes, Vermont, New York, Rhode Island

Midland - Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Deleware

Southern - Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

Answer 2

The syntax here took me awhile to reckon what was being asked. Sentences beginning with the word 'be' are often declaratory in nature. (Be careful, be happy, be nice etc.) Yet they too drop the intended 'you' part, so maybe that's where the writer was coming from. Then I started to wonder how a colony could form another colony anywhere. Usually a country forms a colony somewhere, however the writer could have been referring to a group of people with the same interests getting together away from their home. Then the writer seemed to only be interested in New England colonies in the question. They, of course, were part of the 13 original British colonies in North America. After reading one other answer I came to the rough conclusion that the writer wanted to know about the regional divisions of all those colonies, so I hope the following is helpful:

"Contemporaneous documents almost always listed the colonies in geographical order, roughly from north to south, as follows (the division into three regions is a later construct of historians, though New England was always considered to be a distinct region):

New England:
Province of New Hampshire, later New Hampshire
Province of Massachusetts Bay, later Massachusetts and Maine
Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, later Rhode Island
Connecticut Colony, later Connecticut

Middle Colonies:
Province of New York, later New York and Vermont
Province of New Jersey, later New Jersey
Province of Pennsylvania, later Pennsylvania
Delaware Colony (before 1776, the Lower Counties on Delaware), later Delaware

Cheasapeake Colonies (considered Southern Colonies in most texts):
Province of Maryland, later Maryland
Colony and Dominion of Virginia, later Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia

Southern Colonies:
Province of North Carolina, later North Carolina and Tennessee
Province of South Carolina, later South Carolina
Province of Georgia, later Georgia"

I have no idea what 'midland' is.