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Throughout the 1800s, why did areas like new mexico, texas, and california attract settlers?

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In the 1820s, New Mexico, Texas, and California attracted expansionists because they were rich in resources and thinly settled. Emigrants heading west in the mid-1800s usually traveled in wagon trains of 50 to 1,000 people.
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