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Was the Mason Dixon the name of the line that separated the slave from the free?
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∙ 13y ago
Yes - for a short section of that frontier.
It was the border between Pennsylvania (free soil) and slave-owning Maryland.
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What line of latitude separated the free from the slave states?
Mason Dixon Line
What was commonly separated by the Mason Dixon line?
Maryland (slave) and Pennsylvania (free soil).
What separated slave states from free states east of the Mississippi river?
The Mason-Dixon line
What imagernary line that once separated the free states and the slave states?
Mason Dixon line
Did the mason-dixon line separate the north from the south?
Maryland (slave) and Pennsylvania (free soil)
What is the line between slave and free states?
mason Dixon line
What state are separated by the Mason Dixon line?
Mason and Dixon surveyed the border between Maryland and Penn's domain of Pennsylvania and Delaware State. This tour follows the southern border of Pennsylvania covered bridges in Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. This is a tour of covered bridges, not of the Mason-Dixon line
What did the Mason-Dixon Line divide?
Maryland (slave) and Pennsylvania (free soil)
What was the boundary line between slave and free states in the East originally southern border of Pennsylvania?
The Mason-Dixon line.
Why was the mason-dixon line meant to separate the north from the south?
It separated Pennsylvania (free soil) from Maryland (slave). Maryland did not join the Confederacy, so it remained a Union state.
What was The Mason-Dixon Line commonly seen to separate?
Slave country from free soil.
Is Philadelphia a slave state?
No. It was free soil. Its border with slave-owning Maryland was the famous Mason-Dixon line.
