Keystone State

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Keystone State - a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 coloniesPennsylvania, PABattle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg - a battle of the American Civil War (1863); the defeat of Robert E. Lee's invading Confederate Army was a major victory for the UnionUniversity of Pennsylvania, Penn, Pennsylvania - a university in Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaU.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, the States, U.S. - 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 1776Mid-Atlantic states - a region of the eastern United States comprising New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Delaware and MarylandAllentown - a city in eastern Pennsylvania; an industrial and commercial centerAltoona - a town in central PennsylvaniaBethlehem - a town in eastern Pennsylvania on the Lehigh River to the northwest of Philadelphia; an important center for steel productionErie - a port city on Lake Erie in northwestern PennsylvaniaGettysburg - a small town in southern Pennsylvania; site of a national cemeterycapital of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg - capital of Pennsylvania; located in southern part of stateChester - a city of southeastern Pennsylvania on the Delaware river (an industrial suburb of Philadelphia)City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia - the largest city in Pennsylvania; located in the southeastern part of the state on the Delaware river; site of Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed; site of the University of PennsylvaniaPittsburgh - a city in southwestern Pennsylvania where the confluence of the Allegheny River and Monongahela River forms the Ohio River; long an important urban industrial area; site of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of PittsburghAlleghenies, Allegheny Mountains - the western part of the Appalachian Mountains; extending from northern Pennsylvania to southwestern VirginiaAllegheny, Allegheny River - a river that rises in Pennsylvania and flows north into New York and then back south through Pennsylvania again to join the Monongahela River at Pittsburgh which is the beginning of the Ohio RiverBlue Ridge, Blue Ridge Mountains - a range of the Appalachians extending from southern Pennsylvania to northern GeorgiaLehigh River - a river in eastern Pennsylvania that flows southeast into the Delaware RiverMonongahela, Monongahela River - a river that rises in northern West Virginia and flows north into Pennsylvania where it joins the Allegheny River at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio RiverSusquehanna, Susquehanna River - a river in the northeastern United States that rises in New York and flows southward through Pennsylvania and Maryland into Chesapeake Bay