Webster–Ashburton Treaty

The Webster - Ashburton Treaty (English for: Webster - Ashburton Treaty) is a August 9, 1842 in Washington, DC signed contract, which regulates the border between the U.S. state of Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick. He ended the so-called Aroostook War between the United States and the British colony of New Brunswick.

He also reaffirmed the already set in earlier treaties course of the border between Canada and the United States:

• The border between Lake Superior ( Lake Superior ) and the Lake of the Woods as defined in 1783 and the Peace of Paris
• The boundary between Minnesota and the Rocky Mountains as defined in the Treaty of London in 1818.

It also contains provisions for the common use of the Great Lakes and the fight for the completion of the overseas slave trade.

The namesake and main signatories were Daniel Webster, former U.S. Secretary of State, and the British politician Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton.

• History of Law (Canada)
• Historical Document of the United States
• International Law Treaty
• British colonial history ( America)
• 1842