Massachusetts Word Search
Boston is both the state capital of Massachusetts and its largest city. The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in 1620, and much of the early Revolutionary War happened on Massachusetts ground.
Massachusetts word search (Easy)
Find these 10 words
10 words, across and down only
- beach
- boston
- cape cod
- cranberry
- harbor
- lantern
- lobster
- ship
- tea party
- whale
Massachusetts word search (Medium)
Find these 15 words
15 words, adds diagonals
- bay state
- beach
- boston
- cape cod
- cranberry
- harbor
- lantern
- lobster
- mayflower
- paul revere
- pilgrim
- plymouth
- ship
- tea party
- whale
Massachusetts word search (Hard)
Find these 20 words
20 words, any direction, backwards too
- bay state
- beach
- berkshires
- boston
- cape cod
- chickadee
- cranberry
- freedom trail
- harbor
- lantern
- lobster
- mayflower
- nantucket
- paul revere
- pilgrim
- plymouth
- salem
- ship
- tea party
- whale
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Words in the Massachusetts word search
Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.
- boston
- The capital and largest city of Massachusetts
- tea party
- In 1773 colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor
- harbor
- Boston Harbor has served as a working port since the 1630s
- ship
- Tall sailing ships carried Massachusetts goods around the world
- whale
- Massachusetts ports once led the world in whaling
- cape cod
- A hook shaped peninsula reaching into the Atlantic
- cranberry
- A tart red berry grown in flooded Massachusetts bogs
- lantern
- Lanterns in a church tower signaled the British advance in 1775
- beach
- Massachusetts has hundreds of miles of sandy Atlantic shoreline
- lobster
- Lobster is caught in the cold waters off Massachusetts
- plymouth
- The town where the Pilgrims settled in 1620
- mayflower
- The ship that carried the Pilgrims to Plymouth
- paul revere
- A silversmith who rode to warn of British troops in 1775
- pilgrim
- An English settler who came to Plymouth seeking a new home
- bay state
- The common nickname for Massachusetts
- freedom trail
- A marked Boston walking route past sixteen historic sites
- chickadee
- The black capped chickadee is the Massachusetts state bird
- nantucket
- An island south of Cape Cod, once a whaling port
- salem
- A coastal city known for its 1692 witch trials
- berkshires
- Wooded hills in the western part of the state
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