If a whole third of the US was once French for over 2 centuries, how come Americans are taught their nation?

Question

was shaped by England

Answer 1

The land was French but it wasn't necessarily populated. The British were the ones who actually created colonies and filled them with people......thank God for the Louisiana Purchase....

Answer 2

I think it is because the region France controlled was very sparsely populated (by the French). With the exception of New Orleans/Louisiana and some trading posts along the Mississippi (i.e. St. Louis), a great deal of the population were merely roaming fur trappers. France really had no idea of what it had or what was in it. That's one of the reasons that Napoleon was willing to sell the territory and the reason for the Lewis & Clark expedition. Little French culture was established so nothing remained after the sale.

Answer 3

Because the American education system sucks.

The Spanish once controlled everything from where modern day Texas is, right down to Peru and Brazil.

The French had the north east of teh continent (and are still there, in Canada!)

The English had the middle bit, which became the USA.

Answer 4

Other than place names, the French left very little impact on the part of the US they once controlled, except for the State of Louisiana. The land my house is on was once French, but in terms of cultural impact on my town, the English, Germans, Czechs, Irish, and Norwegians have influenced it far more than the French.

Answer 5

Because American legal system (including the Constitution) descends from English common law, not from the French code law (which was revamped by Napoleon after the formation of the U.S. anyway).

Answer 6

Nobody lived in the third that was French.

Look at the important documents of American history- the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independance, the Constitution--in what language are they written? Against what country's king was the Revolutionary War fought?

Answer 7

The land was French. But most of the population was British.

Answer 8

Ignorance. They forget that Spain was also a colonial power in North America

Answer 9

The English colonizers were the ones making the laws and writing the histories.

Answer 10

Because one third is only half of two thirds, which WAS English...

it's mathematical