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Originally the whole of the mid-west was one territory called the Louisiana Territory. It stretched from modern day Louisiana and up to the Canadian border and stretching across Wisconsin and North/South Dakota. This territory was owned by the French.

Napoleon Bonaparte (a famous French military man who later seized the throne) bankrupt France in the early 1800's, so he sold the territory to America for a very low sum.

Many French settlers never left the territory and simply became inducted into American society. Because of this, we still have French names and customs in the mid-west.

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