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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 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.


How many slaves lived below the Mason Dixon Line in 1790?

According to the 1790 US Census, 94% of US slaves lived south of the Mason-Dixon Line.


How did the Missouri Compromise affect the Civil War?

The Missouri Compromise created the 36th parallel in the United States, the Mason Dixon Line. The Mason Dixon line was an imaginary line that divided the North and South. Any States above this imaginary line were slave free but any states below were still able to own slaves. This compromise caused the North and South to be divided, almost as two different countries.


All states that are below the Mason Dixon Line?

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.


Why is West Virginia considered southern?

West Virginia is considered southern because it is below the Mason-Dixon line.


What was the line that separated north and south during the American civil war?

the lines that separated the north and the south were the border states If you mean the northern and southern states of USA then the Mason-Dixon line. The Mason-Dixon line is the wrong answer. Maryland was in the north but is below the Mason-Dixon line. Thus proving the answer incorrect. This line was to divide Philly from Maryland. And was done prior to the conflict. The true division of North and South is the 36 30 parallel plus Virginia. This is the line that started the debate over slavery. Where it could and could not exist. This is the line drawn in the sand which created the conflict. This is the line that shaped states and our country.


Why did the US Mexico War cause anxiety for abolitionists?

All the land obtained from Mexico from this war was below the Mason-Dixon line. Abolitionists were fearful that some of this new territory would become slave states.


What are the boundaries of the US?

Although popularly called the "Mason-Dixie" or "Mason-Dixon" LINE, it is not. The "Mason-Dixon LINE" is a boundary between Penn and Maryland surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in the 1700's. But the name (Mason-Dixie line) is popular with poems, stories, songs, jokes, and probably US history in general. The real so called "Dixie LINE" consists of the actual states that formed the Confederacy during the US Civil War in 1861-1865, and is an imaginary line running from the top of Texas running east along the northern tips of Arkansa, Tennessee, and Virginia; and encompassing all of the states below that imaginary line, for a total of 11 states. The line runs thru the former Indian Territory of Oklahoma.


What was the name of the unofficial boundary between the North and the South?

You may referring to the Mason-Dixon line. See the related Wikipedia link listed below for more information:


Is Berkeley Springs West Virginia in the north east?

Berkeley Springs West Virginia is below the Mason-Dixon Line so I assume it not considered the north east.