Alexander Baring and the U.S. Secretary of State negotiated the treaty that ended it, which grew tense when (*) loggers and lumberjacks from different countries disputed over the same land.
News of the treaty ending this conflict did not reach the signatories of the Treaty of La Pointe, causing one country to sign a separate agreement with the Grand Portage Indians. The treaty ending it also attempted to regulate the slave trade off the African coast and fixed an ambiguous border attributed to the so-called Mitchell Map. After John Baker attempted to establish the Republic of Madawaska, King William I of the Netherlands was asked to solve the central problem of this conflict, which led to the construction of Fort Kent and Fort Fairfield. Alexander Baring and the U.S. Secretary of State negotiated the treaty that ended it, which grew tense when (*) loggers and lumberjacks from different countries disputed over the same land. The Webster-Ashburton Treaty ended, for 10 points, what bloodless dispute over the border between Maine and Canada?
News of the treaty ending this conflict did not reach the signatories of the Treaty of La Pointe, causing one country to sign a separate agreement with the Grand Portage Indians.
Aroostook War [or Pork and Beans War; or Northeastern Boundary Dispute]