USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Mason-Dixon Line, also called Mason and Dixon Line, originally the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania in the United States. In the pre-Civil War period it was regarded, together with the Ohio River, as the dividing line between slave states south of it and free-soil states north of it.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mason and Dixon’s actual survey line began to the south of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and extended from a benchmark east to the Delaware River and west to what was then the boundary with western Virginia.

Detailed explanation-3: -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).

Detailed explanation-4: -Although Maryland is not always considered to be a southern state, the Mason-Dixon Line has become known as the boundary between the North and the South.

Detailed explanation-5: -Yes, the state of North Carolina is south of the Mason-Dixon line. On the east coast, Maryland is just south of the line and Pennsylvania is on the north side.