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This answer is written as if looking at the Mason Dixon Line at the beginning of the Civil War.
Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas
South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia (including the future West Virginia)
Maryland
Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri
California
Technically, the Mason-Dixon line simply established the boundary that cut between Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware. It came to symbolize the cultural divide between slave economies and free economies. At the time the line was drawn, however, slavery was legal in nearly all parts of the country.
The Mason-Dixon Line is sometime confused with the line (36 degrees 30 minutes north) of the Missouri Compromise; that line was intended to limit the growth of slavery in the years leading up to the Civil War.
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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 is the region below that Mason Dixon Line?
it means in the southern part of the united states
Is the city of Baltimore right on the Mason-Dixon line of 36-30 One has heard this often stated?
The Mason-Dixon line was defined as the line extending west from the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland. As Baltimore is located south of the Pennsylvania border, it is south of the Mason-Dixon line.
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.
Is the mason dixon line by Illinois?
No. It is the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania.
What are the states below the Mason Dixon line?
Maryland and all the states south of it are south of the Mason-Dixon line. It was originally a line separating Pennsylvania and Delaware from Maryland and Virginia. This boundary was extended agreed in 1779. The line was named after George Mason and Jerimiah Dixon. These men had surved the line, thus the name "Mason -Dixon".
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 line divided Pennsylvania and Virginia?
The Mason-Dixon Line is the boundary between Pennsylvania and Virginia. It was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 to settle a border dispute between the British colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland.
What was the boundary line between slave and free states in the East originally southern border of Pennsylvania?
The Mason-Dixon line.
What is the region below that Mason Dixon Line?
it means in the southern part of the united states
Dixie are below the Mason-Dixie line?
Dixie is the southern states that made up the Confederate States of America. So yes they are below the Mason - Dixon line but only the 11 states (As far out as Texas) that fought for the confederacy. All states west of Texas that are below the line are not considered to be part of dixie.
What is the line between slave and free states?
mason Dixon line
Is it Mason-Dixie Line or Mason-Dixon Line?
It's Mason-Dixon.
What states are seperated by the mason-dixon line?
Pennsylvania and Maryland
What line of latitude separated the free from the slave states?
Mason Dixon Line
What imagernary line that once separated the free states and the slave states?
Mason Dixon line
