Why did Southern and Northern delegates disagree over whether the new Congress should have the commerce power? Northerners feared it would lead to expanded slavery. Northerners feared it would lead to the end of slavery. Southerners feared it would lead to the end of slavery. Southerners feared it would lead to slavery in the North.

France played a key role in the american revolutionary war (american war of independence; 1775–1783). motivated by the ideals of the new nation which were inspired by the french enlightenment, as well as its long-term rivalry with britain and so as to avenge their territorial losses during the french and indian war, france secretly began sending supplies to the americans in 1775.