the executive and legislative and judicial branches of the federal government of the United States | a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War |
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 | one of the British colonies that formed the United States, with capital Jamestown or Williamsburg |
| a town in northeastern Minnesota in the heart of the Mesabi Range |