During the Constitutional Convention, the Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise gave Congress the power to

The Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise allowed Congress to regulate interstate and foreign commerce, while temporarily preventing it from banning the international slave trade before 1808. This gave Congress commerce authority in both Northern and Southern states, but delayed federal action to end the slave trade. Therefore, the correct choice is “regulate commerce in both the North and the South, but could not yet regulate the slave trade.”

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