Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Early Settlement of the West.
The illegal and often violent act of seizing a piece of land that another prospector had already staked out for mining.
Claim jumping appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for The American West, especially Early Settlement of the West and Conflict and Tension.
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