USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Webster–Ashburton Treaty, signed August 9, 1842, was a treaty that resolved several border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies (the region that became Canada). Signed under John Tyler’s presidency, it resolved the so-called Aroostook War.

Detailed explanation-2: -Webster and Ashburton agreed on a division of disputed territory, giving 7, 015 square miles to the United States and 5, 012 to Great Britain; agreed on the boundary line through the Great Lakes to the Lake of the Woods; and agreed on provisions for open navigation in several bodies of water.

Detailed explanation-3: -The treaty established the present boundary between Maine and New Brunswick, granted the U.S. navigation rights on the St. John River, provided for extradition in enumerated nonpolitical criminal cases, and established a joint naval system for suppressing the slave trade off the African coast.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1842, Britain and the US signed the Webster-Ashburton Treaty to settle the disputed borders between New Brunswick and Maine and in the Great Lakes area.

Detailed explanation-5: -Annotation: The Webster-Ashburton Treaty settled several matters between the United States and Great Britain and was signed August 9, 1842. The treaty settled the Northeast Boundary Dispute between the U.S. and Great Britain and the shared use of the Great Lakes. It also called for an end to the slave trade.