The
Webster–Ashburton Treaty, signed August 9, 1842, was a treaty resolving several border issues between the
United States and the
British North American colonies. Signed under
John Tyler's presidency, it resolved the
Aroostook War, a nonviolent dispute over the location of the
Maine–
New Brunswick border. It established the border between Lake Superior and the
Lake of the Woods, originally defined in the
Treaty of Paris (1783), reaffirmed the location of the border (at the 49th parallel) in the westward frontier up to the
Rocky Mountains defined in the
Treaty of 1818, defined seven crimes subject to extradition, called for a final end to the
slave trade on the high seas, and agreed to shared use of the
Great Lakes.