Some very serious long term National debt and a very bad credit report.
There were several emissaries whom helped gain French support during the American Revolution. Benjamin Franklin is the most well known and most influential of these. However, John Adams and Marquis de Lafayette also were able to gain support from the French.
The American Revolution
The American Revolution was not only the colonies fight to gain independence but the African-Americans largest slave revolt.
Lexington & Concord
Jefferson favored France because he felt that since the french had helped the Americans gain their independence from England during the American revolution that the US owed France their support. hamilton was born in the british west indies, so he had strong ties to England.
American help in gaining territory in the Caribbean
Edmund Charles Genet was the French citizen that hoped to gain American support for France. During the French Revolution he was the French Ambassador to the US.
American help in gaining territory in the Caribbean
If you are asking about the American revolution Spain gained nothing in the war.
There were several emissaries whom helped gain French support during the American Revolution. Benjamin Franklin is the most well known and most influential of these. However, John Adams and Marquis de Lafayette also were able to gain support from the French.
France
i think that the one who persuaded France to enter the American Revolution to be on the American side was James Hancock :)
Independence.
No the rivalry, so to speak, was already present and had been long before the colonists rebelled. England and France had been arguing over land, trading rights and other such things in North America and elsewhere in the world for many, many years before the American Revolution. The French, who were on the brink of their own revolution at the time, viewed England's reign over much of the world as tyrannous, so helping the American colonies fight against this tyranny and gain independence was only natural.
Primarily France.
The American Revolution
The American Revolution was not only the colonies fight to gain independence but the African-Americans largest slave revolt.