Robert Remini
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This line was finally surveyed by two English engineers, Mason and Dixon, and is always called after their names.
It is the present boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland.
In colonial days, it separated the colonies where slavery was the rule from those where labor was generally free.
In the first half of the 19th century, it separated the free states from the slave states.
Mason and Dixon's line, therefore, has been a famous line in the history of the United States.
End of Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Colonial Development, 1688-1760 81.
The Stuart Tyranny
Instead of admiring the growth of the colonies and strength and liberty, Charles and James saw it with dismay.
The colonies were becoming too strong and too free.
They determined to reduce all the colonies to royal provinces, like Virginia, with the exception of Pennsylvania, which belonged to their friend, William Penn.
There was a good deal to be said in favor of this plan, for the colonists were so jealous of each other that they would not unite against the French or the Indians.
If the governments were all in the hands of the king, the whole strength of the British colonies could be used against any enemy of England.
82.
The Stuart Tyranny in New England.
The Massachusetts Charter was now taken away and Sir Edmund Andrus was sent over to govern the colony.
He was ordered to make laws and to tax the people without asking their consent.
He did as he was ordered to do.
He set up the Church of England.
He taxed the people.
He even took their lands from them on the ground that the grants from the old Massachusetts government were of no value.
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