Definitions for mason-dixon line
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1. Mason-Dixon line, Mason and Dixon line, Mason and Dixon's linenoun

   the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania; symbolic dividing line between North and South before the American Civil War

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1. Mason-Dixon Linenoun

   The boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland, as run before the Revolution (1764-1767) by two English astronomers named Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon.

2. Mason-Dixon Linenoun

   The boundary between the free and slave states at the time of the American Civil War.

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1. mason-dixon line

   The Mason–Dixon line, also called the Mason and Dixon line or Mason's and Dixon's line, is a demarcation line separating four U.S. states, forming part of the borders of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia (part of Virginia until 1863). It was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon as part of the resolution of a border dispute involving Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware in colonial America. The dispute had its origins almost a century earlier in the somewhat confusing proprietary grants by King Charles I to Lord Baltimore (Maryland) and by King Charles II to William Penn (Pennsylvania and Delaware). The largest, east-west portion of the Mason–Dixon line along the southern Pennsylvania border later became known, informally, as the boundary between the Southern slave states and Northern free states. This usage came to prominence during the debate around the Missouri Compromise of 1820, when drawing boundaries between slave and free territory was an issue, and resurfaced during the American Civil War, with border states also coming into play. The Confederate States of America claimed the Virginia portion of the line as part of its northern border, although it never exercised meaningful control that far north – especially after West Virginia separated from Virginia and joined the Union as a separate state in 1863. It is still used today in the figurative sense of a line that separates the Northeast and South culturally, politically, and socially (see Dixie).

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1. mason-dixon line

   The Mason-Dixon Line is a boundary line, roughly along the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland, that was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon to resolve a border dispute between the British colonies in colonial America. The line later became informally recognized as the dividing line between free states and slave states in the years leading up to the American Civil War.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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