Lexington and Concord, Lexington, Concord - the first battle of the American Revolution (April 19, 1775)

American state - one of the 50 states of the United States

New England - a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut

Bean Town, Beantown, Boston, capital of Massachusetts, Hub of the Universe - state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services

Cambridge - a city in Massachusetts just north of Boston; site of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Concord - town in eastern Massachusetts near Boston where the first battle of the American Revolution was fought

Gloucester - a town in northeastern Massachusetts on Cape Ann northeast of Boston; the harbor has been a fishing center for centuries

Lexington - town in eastern Massachusetts near Boston where the first battle of the American Revolution was fought

Medford - town in northeastern Massachusetts; residential suburb of Boston

Pittsfield - a town in western Massachusetts

Springfield - a city and manufacturing center in southwestern Massachusetts on the Connecticut River

Worcester - an industrial and university city in central Massachusetts west of Boston

Cape Ann - a Massachusetts peninsula north of Boston extending into the Atlantic Ocean

Cape Cod - a Massachusetts peninsula south of Boston extending into the Atlantic; a popular resort area

Cape Cod Canal - a canal connecting Cape Cod Bay with Buzzards Bay

Plymouth - a town in Massachusetts founded by Pilgrims in 1620

Salem - a city in northeastern Massachusetts; site of the witchcraft trials in 1692

Williamstown - a town in northwestern Massachusetts

Berkshire Hills, Berkshires - a low mountain range in western Massachusetts; a resort area

Charles River, Charles - a river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston

Housatonic, Housatonic River - a river that rises in western Massachusetts and flows south through Connecticut to empty into Long Island Sound

Merrimack, Merrimack River - a river that rises in south central New Hampshire and flows through Concord and Manchester into Massachusetts and empties into the Atlantic Ocean

Algonquian, Algonquin - a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast

Colony - one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States

Algonquian language, Algonquin, Algonquian - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains