The Story of the Mason-Dixon Line: The Colonial-Era Border Battle That Defined the Civil War
Our American Stories
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4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Our American Stories, the Mason-Dixon Line defined the American "house divided" between antislavery and pro-slavery. Yet this border war was pre-dated by another battle—a colonial-era quarrel that ended only when the area separating Pennsylvania and Maryland’s border was surveyed and mapped in the 1760s by the Englishmen Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon. Here to tell the story is Dakota Bricker who hosts the YouTube channel, What In The History?
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| 0:48.7 | You may have heard of the Mason-Dixon line. |
| 0:51.8 | It's separated north from south. |
| 0:54.0 | Most of us have come to understand |
| 0:55.8 | in the Civil War. |
| 0:57.5 | But long before the Civil War, |
| 1:00.1 | the Mason-Dixon line came to be, |
| 1:02.9 | and it was pretty darn messy. |
| 1:05.9 | Here to tell the story is Dakota Bricker, |
| 1:08.5 | who hosts the YouTube channel, |
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