North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776 | a New England state; one of the original 13 colonies |
North America and South America and Central America | one of the British colonies that formed the United States, with capital Hartford or Hartford and New Haven |
| a river in the northeastern United States; flows south from northern New Hampshire along the border between New Hampshire and Vermont and through Massachusetts and Connecticut where it empties into Long Island Sound |