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Originally Posted by porwolf
Why then does The United States drive on the right. Was it their hate of the British also?
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Possibly. Didn't the French support the war against the British during the battle for independence?
"In the Americas, all the formerly British, Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the Americas originally kept to the left. The first keep-right law in the United States was passed in 1792 and applied to the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike. New York formalised right-hand traffic in 1804 and New Jersey in 1813. By the time the United States annexed French, Spanish, Russian and Hawaiian territories, the keep-right rule already applied there. " - Wikipedia