<P> The Convention respecting fisheries , boundary and the restoration of slaves between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , also known as the London Convention , Anglo - American Convention of 1818 , Convention of 1818 , or simply the Treaty of 1818 , was an international treaty signed in 1818 between the above parties . Signed during the presidency of James Monroe , it resolved standing boundary issues between the two nations . The treaty allowed for joint occupation and settlement of the Oregon Country , known to the British and in Canadian history as the Columbia District of the Hudson 's Bay Company , and including the southern portion of its sister district New Caledonia . </P>
an agreement between the united states and great britain that settled fishing rights
Treaty of 1818