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mason-dixon line

/ˈmeɪsən ˈdɪksən laɪn/

Traducción: Línea histórica trazada en la década de 1760 entre Pensilvania y Maryland, considerada tradicionalmente como la frontera divisoria entre los estados libres del norte y los esclavistas del sur de Estados Unidos.

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/ˈmeɪsən ˈdɪksən laɪn/C1formalamericanpolitical
  • esLínea histórica trazada en la década de 1760 entre Pensilvania y Maryland, considerada tradicionalmente como la frontera divisoria entre los estados libres del norte y los esclavistas del sur de Estados Unidos.

A boundary line surveyed between Pennsylvania and Maryland in the 1760s, historically considered the dividing line between the Northern free states and Southern slave states in the United States.

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    A boundary line surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, separating Pennsylvania from Maryland and Delaware. It became a symbolic division between the Northern free states and Southern slave states in the United States.

    esLínea Mason-Dixon

    • The Mason-Dixon Line was a key marker in the debate over slavery.
    • Historians often refer to the Mason-Dixon Line when discussing the Civil War.
    • Traveling south of the Mason-Dixon Line once meant entering a different legal and cultural region.