Local associations known as claims clubs:
A) worked to stop slavery from spreading to the West.
B) promoted an increase in profits for speculators.
C) enforced extralegal property rights for squatters.
D) showed the national government's commitment to promoting slavery.

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Claims clubs were organizations formed by settlers in the American West who sought to protect their claims to land before those lands were officially surveyed and made available for purchase by the government. These clubs enforced extralegal (outside the formal legal system) property rights for squatters, helping to ensure that the early settlers could establish and maintain claims to land they had improved upon, often in advance of formal legal recognition.

Local Associations Known as Claims Clubs