Answer:
Option A. Squatters were people who settled on land they did not own.
Step-by-step explanation:
Squatters are people who occupied an abandoned or unoccupied land or building that they do not own, rent or have legal permission to use. Squatting is normally residential in nature; poor people that do not have a place to live in, settles into an empty or abandoned area with no other goal than to live in it. The term was coined during the 19th Century in Australia, in order to describe illegal occupier of land beyond the limits of settlement given by the Crown.