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Why was the division between the Union and the Confederacy called the Mason Dixon line?
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∙ 16y ago
to finally resolve an 80 year old land dispute in the 1760s between the family who owned Maryland & the family who owned Pennsylvania & perhaps also Delaware at that time
& which had arisen owing to an inadvertent territorial overlap in the original 17th century proprietary charters granted to their respective ancestors by the king of England
not until 1820 & only then by coincidence did the same line come to have any significance with regard to the northern boundary of slavery
& it was extended westward in that new context til 1861
when it reached the southwest corner of kansas by most accounts
or perhaps it actually continued as far as the pacific coast at the Mexican border
insofar as California was a free state
but the mason dixon line of the 19th century is really an entirely different matter than the mason dixon line of the 18th century
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 16y agoThat was the name of the men (Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon) who surveyed the original boundary between MD and PE. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason-Dixon
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∙ 11y agoIt was the boundary east of the Appalachian Mountains and the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland.
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∙ 13y agoThe two people who invented the Mason-Dixon line's last names were Mason and Dixon.
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What is the division between north and south called?
Mason-Dixon line, which represents the cultural border between the Southern and Northern United States.
Why was Mason Dixon more than a boundary line?
The Mason-Dixon line divided the North from the South, the free states from the slave states. The south, in memory of this division, is still sometimes referred to as "Dixie".
What was the imaginary line called during the civil war?
It's called the Mason-Dixon line.
Where did the term Mason-Dixon line originate What does it mean?
The Mason-Dixon line, named for Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, the surveyors who mapped it out, was originally the border between the colonies of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia (in present-day West Virginia). The line later was extended westwards, marking the border between slave states and free states.
In 1760's what did Jeremiah Dixon and Charles Mason have to settle?
They had to settle a boundary dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania
What is the division between north and south called?
Mason-Dixon line, which represents the cultural border between the Southern and Northern United States.
What was the Mason-Dixon Line known for in the 1800s and Civil War era?
The Mason-Dixon line was known for the division between the northern and southern states in the U.S
How did the msaon-dixon line affect the civil war?
It simply marked the border between free Pennsylvania and slave-owning Maryland, and has remained a code for the division between North and South.
Was the confederacy north or the south?
South
What was the imaginary line called that separated the southern states and the northern states?
The "Mason-Dixon" Line Not true, the Mason-Dixon line was used due to colonial disputes with the British colonies at about 1763
What marked the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland?
The Mason Dixon Line which has come to symbolize the cultural boundary between the Northern United States and Dixie.
What is alesha dixon's mum called?
Alesha mum is a british and the father is a Jamaican
How did Charles Mason become famous?
Charles Mason became famous with the Mason-Dixon Line, which was commonly associated with the division between the northern and southern states during the 1800s. The line was to settle a property dispute.
Why was Mason Dixon more than a boundary line?
The Mason-Dixon line divided the North from the South, the free states from the slave states. The south, in memory of this division, is still sometimes referred to as "Dixie".
Who were Charles masons and Jeremiah Dixon?
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon were the surveyors who demarcated the Mason-Dixon line between 1763 and 1767. This was done to settle the border issues between British colonies. The agreement to extend the line was made in 1799. The surveyors were Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon.
What is the song called when Dixon uses part of Adrianna's song in 90210?
Dixon remixed Adrianna's song 'fool'.
What was the Mason-Dixon line about?
The Mason-Dixon Line was named after the two surveyors responsible for formalizing the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania, decades before the Civil War. It is a matter of luck that this imaginary line just so happened to more-or-less coincide with the division between North and South, with the exception that MD technically fought on the side of the Union, though popular opinion was greatly divided in that state.
