What country the US was the most influenced by?

Question

Was it the UK 

and why?

PS I see a lot of American cities’ names sound British i.e have the exact same/similar names as British cities

Update:

If it wasn’t the UK, what country it was and why?

Answer 1

Part of what is now the modern USA was once a British colony [the 13 states in the North-Eastern part of the modern US]. Many settlements were named after where the settlers originally came from for instance Boston, Cambridge, Greenwich, Plymouth and Rochester The British Boston is a market town in Lincolnshire, in the English East Midlands. New York is named after the Duke of York, its first Governor.

Answer 2

Thank God we don't have a city named Hertfordshire. What a stupid fvcking name...

Answer 3

Seeing as America was once a British colony it has to be Britain.

Answer 4

Atlantis. Looks like it’ll end up like Atlantis too. 

Answer 5

We are our own country. We aren’t really infurnced by anyone that’s what makes us so unique. We have our own system. 

Answer 6

Well we used to be owned by Britain so they influenced us a lot