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This family sent Thomas Cresap north to establish a ferry in the territory of a rival colony, igniting a violent border dispute called Cresap’s War. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this family whose long-running dispute with the Penn family began when Charles II granted it land north of Philadelphia. This leading family of Maryland included the first Lord Baltimore.
ANSWER: Calvert family
[10e] This line, named for a pair of surveyors, was drawn to resolve the dispute over the MarylandPennsylvania border. It was later regarded as the dividing line between free and slave states.
ANSWER: Mason–Dixon line
[10h] The Calverts and Penns also disputed much land in northern Delaware, which was settled by the drawing of this other boundary centered on the city of New Castle.
ANSWER: The Twelve-Mile Circle [prompt on Delaware–Pennsylvania border or Delaware–Maryland border by “ name of specific boundary”]
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