Squatters
A) tended to gobble up all available public land.
B) exerted a restraining influence on the land speculator.
C) lobbied for a stronger Indian removal policy.
D) brought about the Panic of 1819.
E) were removed from the West by new federal land policy enacted in 1841.

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Squatters, by settling on lands they did not own, often exerted a restraining influence on land speculators who sought to buy up large areas of land for profit. Squatters would occupy the land before speculators could secure it, thereby limiting the speculators' ability to monopolize land and drive up prices.