2006-11-03 13:04:35 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
The Mason–Dixon Line (or "Mason and Dixon's Line") is a line of demarcation between four states in the United States. Properly, the Mason-Dixon line is part of the borders of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland, surveyed when they were still British colonies. After Pennsylvania began abolishing slavery within the Commonwealth, in 1781, this line, and the Ohio River, became most of the border between the free and slave states. Popular speech, especially since the Missouri compromise of 1820, uses the Mason-Dixon line symbolically as a supposed cultural boundary between the Northern United States and the Southern United States.
2006-11-03 14:52:01 · answer #1 · answered by fordperfect5 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It starts in Virginia and runs along the northern border with W. Virginia. Virginia was confederate and W. Virginia was Union. Stopped at Mississippi River
2006-11-03 13:07:11 · answer #2 · answered by bbpip 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Between Md and Virginia, with MD, WV and PA all being Union.
2006-11-03 13:13:40 · answer #3 · answered by sarcastro1976 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Between Pennsylvania and Maryland - that's all I know.
2006-11-03 13:07:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋