Question

The Mason-Dixon Line was created to __________________.

The Mason-Dixon Line was created to __________________.

Answer 1

basically it was a border dispute like it always is

this time it was between Pennsylvania and Maryland, in an effort to settle an 80-year land dispute between the two colonies over whos land is whos

Answer 2

cool beans?

Answer 3

The line was established to end a boundary dispute between the British colonies of Maryland and Pennsylvania/Delaware. Maryland had been granted the territory north of the Potomac River up to the fortieth parallel. Pennsylvania's grant defined the colony's southern boundary as following a 12-mile (radius) circle counter-clockwise from the Delaware River until it hit "the beginning of the fortieth degree of Northern latitude."