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Many landowners also felt threatened by newly freed servants demand for land. The colonial elite realized the problems of indentured servitude. Landowners turned to African slaves as a more profitable and ever-renewable source of labor and the shift from indentured servants to racial slavery had begun.
The Progressive Era took place in the US from the 1890s to the 1920s. The movement was an effort to reform the government and eliminate the corruption within it. Social activists also wanted to reform the educational system, the insurance industry, the churches, and many other things they felt were out of control, and not working in the best interests of the citizens.
