What is the mason-dixon line commonly seen to separate?

Answer 1

The Mason-Dixon Line (or "Mason and Dixon's Line") was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon to respove a border dispute between British colonies in Colonial America. It forms part of the borders of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia (then part of Virginia). The Mason-Dixon Line has come to symbolize a cultural boundary between the Northern United States and the Southern United States.

Answer 2

The Mason-Dixon line is the dividing line between the states of Pennsylvania, Maryland D.C. and Delaware.

Surveyed and laid over 150 years ago by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon.

Mason was an astronomer employed by The Royal Society in Greenwich, England.

Dixon was a surveyor from Durham, England.

Mason and Dixon set out to settle what had been a bloody land dispute between two families, the Calverts of Maryland and Penns of Pennsylvania, that had been waged for over 80 years. In 1763 Mason and Dixon were hired to settle the land dispute and set down stone markers to delineate the property lines.

Using precision astronomy instruments of the day (they used the stars to determine the border) and large limestone blocks that were 3.5 ft to 5 ft long and weighing around 300-600 pounds, as markers, they took 5 years to lay the boundary. When modern surveyors with the Mason-Dixon Line Preservation Partnership (MDLPP), used a GPS to check the boundary they found Mason and Dixon is amazingly accurate and the greatest variation is about 800ft. Much of the border wound it's way through 233 miles of rugged wilderness and difficult terrain.

A library of documents, papers and articles can be found in the library section of the MDLPP website at Answers.com"http://www.mdlpp.org/"

The actual story of the dispute and how the border was laid can be found here http://geography.about.com/od/politicalgeography/a/masondixon.htm

This site has some excellent photos of some of the markers (the limestone blocks were quarried and shipped from England, by the way) that still stand.

And this link shows the original Mason-Dixon line

http://www.exploretheline.com

Answer 3

The two states that are divided by the Mason Dixon line are Pennsylvania and Maryland. Maryland was a slave state but chose to remain with the Union in the Civil War.

Answer 4

It marked the boundary of Pennsylvania (free) and Maryland (slave).

It is used as a code for the demarcation between North and South.

Answer 5

Maryland and Pennsylvania

Answer 6

The north and south