February 8, 2010
What Us States Did The Mason -dixon Line Pass Through?
I know it is an arbitrary demarcation to designate the southern states of the US but where was it considered to run.
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MOst people think the Mason-Dixon line separated the Union and Confederacy; but in reality it was a short line, running along Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland. (see map, at link)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason-Dixon…
The Mason–Dixon Line (or “Mason and Dixon’s Line”) was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in the resolution of a border dispute between British colonies in Colonial America. It forms a demarcation line between four U.S. states, forming part of the borders of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia (then part of Virginia). In popular usage, especially since the Missouri Compromise of 1820 (apparently the first official usage of the term “Mason’s and Dixon’s Line”), the Mason-Dixon Line symbolizes a cultural boundary between the Northern United States and the Southern United States (Dixie).
By the first half of the nineteenth century, states north of the Mason-Dixon Line, the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania, began to outlaw slave labor.
From Shmoop/Civil War