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following no less than three conventions were 

 signed for the provisional settlement of ques 

 tions at issue between the two governments. 

 By these conventions the joint occupation of 

 Oregon and the commercial treaty of 1815 were 

 renewed indefinitely, subject to abrogation by 

 either party on twelve months notice, and the 

 northeastern boundary was referred to arbitra 

 tion. The West India trade situation was thus 

 left the sole disturbing feature of the rela 

 tions between the governments. It played a 

 part in the presidential campaign of 1828, in 

 which Adams failed of re-election. The suc 

 ceeding administration, that of General Jackson, 

 with Martin Van Buren as secretary of state, 

 promptly reversed the policy of the United 

 States, dropped the contentions that Adams had 

 sustained, and came to an agreement with Great 

 Britain on her own terms. In the autumn of 

 1830 commerce between the United States and 

 the British West Indies, with some limitations 

 still remaining, was reopened, and the contro 

 versy over the subject ceased to trouble the 

 intercourse of the governments. 



Pending the final disposition of this question 

 the long domination of the Tory party in Great 

 Britain came to an end. Incompatibilities of. 



