How does the UK manage to have an (albeit shitty) multiparty system with first past the post voting when the US has never been able to break out of the two party system?

Question

How does the UK manage to have an (albeit shitty) multiparty system with first past the post voting when the US has never been able to break out of the two party system?

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Answer 1

How? The UK had their system long before the USA. The USA built their system to be different. So the how is that they did not have America’s founding fathers setting up a different system.