Step 1 : Introduction to the question "The Mason–Dixon Line forms the northern border of which U.S. state?"
...The Mason–Dixon Line marks the northern boundary of Maryland and the southern boundary of Pennsylvania. Surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by English astronomers and surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, the line was established to resolve a long-running colonial boundary dispute between the Penn and Calvert families. In later years, it gained broader cultural significance as a symbolic dividing line between the Northern and Southern United States, particularly in the decades leading up to the American Civil War.
