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Why did Mexicans build settlements in California?

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Mexicans built settlements in California up until 1848 because that territory belonged to Mexico.

After the Treaty of Hidalgo it became the territory of the United States.
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they built settlements in cali because it belonged to mexico up until the treaty of Hidalgo which made it us teritory 
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