What is the Mason Dickson line and what has it to do with the American Civil War.?
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Mason and Dickson were Geographers who surveyed the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland, this became known as the Mason Dickson line.\n\nPennsylvania is the southern most Free state and Maryland is the northern most Slave state so it was used as a guide to who is in whose territory North or South.\n\nIt was not the line that separated the USA and CSA because Maryland did not Break off from the Union....Washington D.C. is south of the Mason Dickson, It shows the boundary where people south of it consider themselves southern and north of it consider themselves northern.
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Go to www.allexperts.com/homeworkhelp/militiary history.Follow the prompts and you will find your answer.
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In Colonial days, North Carolina was a big producer of tar, pitch and turpentine. \n\nDuring one of the fiercest conflicts of the Civil War, North Carolina troops felt they had been let down by a regiment carrying the colors of another state, and thus carried chips on their shoulders when they pulled back from the front after the battle.\n\n"Any more tar down in the Old North State, boys?" members of the other regiments taunted the battle-weary North Carolinians.\n\n"Not a bit. Jeff Davis bought it all up," retorted the Carolinians.\n\n"How's that, what's he going to do with it?"\n\n"He's gonna put it on your heels to make you stick better in the next fight," answered the soldiers from the land of tar, pitch and turpentine.\n\nGerneral Lee, hearing of the incident, remarked: "God Bless the Tar Heel Boys."\n\nThe nickname stuck
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The American Civil War?\n\nThe North and The South.\n\nI believe Kentucky and Mizzou were neutral.  I also think California was in the south (not sure).\n\nEDIT:\n\nThe American Civil war was NOT fought because the south wanted slavery and the North did not.  The American Civil War was fought because the South believed they were not getting a fair shake and decided to break away from the union.  Lincoln said that was illegal and we fought a war to keep our nation whole.\n\nAbolishing slavery was a really great side effect of the war.  BTW, the Emancipation Proclomation did not free all slaves.  It only freed the slaves in states rebelling against the North.  Therefore the slave states that did not secede and fight in the CSA still had legal slavery.
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The Confederate States of America
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Guy E. Logan's records describe what happened there during the Civil War: \n\nhttp://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil203p1.htm
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During the Civil War.
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Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederacy.   An ancestor of mine was his cousin.
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A Regiment of civilian volunteers, rescue squad, national guard, and others emergency response workers Have Been The First To Respond to Every Natural Emergency and/or armed conflict in Tennessee, Franklin (the conjoined Eastern regions of Tennessee, Kentucky, and western parts of North Caroline and Virgina PRIOR to the borders as they appear today, and American history, from the earliest of times even up to today.  The Greatest of which in history is the Regiment of Tennessee Volunteers (led by Davy Crockett&Sam Bowie) to render assistance to the Stranded and embattled Settelers (farmers, cattlemen, mercantile, etc) living in South Texas, in particular San Antonio area.  Standing shoulder to shoulder with them when surrounded by superior forcers ( mauradering attacks led by Mexican General Santa Ana) at the Famous Battle of "The Last Stand at the ALAMO" \nThe Men, Women, and Children, who were abandonded by Washington D.C. and the Army (Who Strangly enough were ram-rodding the greatest period of Imperalistic Expansion at the time) Were Not Abandonded By The People of Tennessee.  This is a source of Very Deep Pride in Tennessee even to this day.  Tennesseeans will come running -NO QUESTIONS ASKED, at any time, night or day -to help you. :)
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The U.S. Civil War was the eventual impact of States Rights on the North and South.\n\nThe South claimed that slavery was a State rights issue, although the war was more about States rights than slavery.  The South seceded due to State rights.
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Because the Victors (in the this case the Northern States) write the history books.  To that add another 146 years of revisioinist history ~ and the orgins etc get lost, to all but the true history buffs.\n\nBy definition it was NOT a civil war, for it to be a civil war, you would have to have one group trying to gain control of the government/nation from the other.  That is not what the South was attempting to do.  They did NOT want to seize control of the United States Government ~ they wanted to leave it ~ that is to say ~ succeed ~ and form a nation and a governmetn of their own.  \n\nAnoter mis-conception about the War Between The States is that it was fought over slawvery.  It wasn't.  It was fought over different opinoins about the Constitution and the interpetation of the same.  Its was fought over the same arguments that preceeded the actual war by decades, almost back to the foundation of the United States ~ which can be studied in the "Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers"  \n\nIf it had been at the time publically stated on either side, North or South, that the war was being fought over slavery, the average solider in the field on both sides would not have fought, this is evidenced in what historians refer to as "orginal documents" mainly lettters and such that were written by soliders on both sides of the conflict.  \n\nWhat the Northern solider was fighting for was to perserve the Union as it had exsisted prior to the succession of the Southern States, ~ they could care less about the slaves.  What the Southern solider was fighting for was to protect his "country" (The Confederate States of America) his home and family against a "foreign" invasion from another country.  They to, didn't care about the slaves ~ as you're average, typical Southerner didn't own slaves.  A very small percentage of the Southern population even owned a slave, with only about 1/10th of the Southern population owning 50 or more.\n\nWhat is left out of today's modern history books about the so-called "civil war" is that there were more than just a few "freed" Southern blacks, that owned other black slaves. And, they were not relatives ~ they were slaves, and were treated as slaves, and worked as slaves.  This is documented historial fact.
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Hey, I am from the South....and his response was widely known!  It was called The Civil War....the south raised taxes on its goods, ie cotton, tobacco.  Also, he had been misinformed on why the south seceded.
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On Ancestry.com, I found a record of a "C. C. Bowman; Unit:  1 Kentucky Infantry; Company F; Rank - Induction:  Captain; Rank - Discharge:  Captain; Allegiance:  Confederate."  The source citation is  Box: 377;Extraction: 2; Record: 873; taken from the records housed in the National Archives.  I also found a record for Christopher C. Bowman in the General Index to Pension Files.  The state in which the application was filed is Kentucky. His service is listed as "Verified Recruit U.S.A.; Post (or Fort) Service, U.S.A." The application date is 1901 June 11th (not sure about the 11, as the record is hard to read, but that's what it looks like to me).  The application number is 1270159; Certificate No. 1,271,824; state from which filed:  KY; Attest: C & W. B. King; another blank at the bottom for which I cannot read the title shows "C-885-322", and is stamped "Combined."\n\nIf you can provide me with an e-mail address, I'll be happy to send you a file containing this image.  (I do not allow my e-mail to be posted here, so you will need to add a comment to your question.)  \n\nI don't have any proof that these two are referring to the same people, but at least a bit of the information appears to be correct.  \n\nI'll put this question in my watch list and check to see if you've added an e-mail address.  I do genealogy as a hobby.
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Southern.\nThe Mason-Dixon Line is traditionally used to decide where the North ends and the South begins.  That's on the border of PA and MD, one whole state (and a DC) north of Virginia.
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The importing of slaves was outlawed before the Civil War. Slaves were "home grown" by breeding slaves in the US.
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I loved learning about the civil war, i was born in Atlanta and it is still to this day a big part of heritage in the south.  I think its great for ppl to learn to because most ppl believe that the whole war was based on slavery and that is totally not true it was just a minor detail.
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History in US has become too Politically Correct- and that is the problem.\nI also know the facts about the War of Secession, and it is indeed as you describe it.\nAnother hushed up fact is that 160 000 blacks served in the Confederate Army, most of them as free men and volunteers, about half of them as normal, armed, frontline troops. To make things even funnier, they served in integrated units alongside white men- while the Norhtern armies were segregated.\nAbout 6% of the men in "Pickett's Charge" at Gettysburg were black.\n\nAnd yes, this information is pretty hard to find. Also any information about the Islamic conquest of Christian lands- which led to the Crusades. But plenty of "history" on how the evil crusaders attacked the peace loving muslims. Also next to nothing about the Mongol invasions of Christian and Muslim lands.\n\nWhy is it done so? you might ask the same about mass media coverage of the Iraq war. \nJust too many busybodies with an agenda lying- that's my idea.