Final answer:
Indentured servants, primarily impoverished European immigrants, were bound to labor contracts, while Native Americans faced colonial forced labor efforts but often resisted due to their knowledge of the land and other factors.
Step-by-step explanation:
Indentured servants vs. Native Americans:
The key difference between indentured servants and Native Americans lies in A) Indentured servants were primarily European immigrants bound to a contract. Indentured servants and Native Americans had distinctly different experiences and roles in the early American labor system. Indentured servants, often poor Europeans, worked under a contract for a set period in exchange for passage to America, and hopes of a new life thereafter. Contrastingly, Native Americans were indigenous to the land and had complex responses to colonial demands for labor, including resistance, and were subject to efforts of enslavement and displacement.
Employment patterns in the colonies differed based on location—rural vs. urban centers—and reflected a mix of free labor, indentured servitude, and slavery. Diseases introduced by Europeans greatly impacted Native American populations, and alongside other factors, hindered colonial efforts to enslave Native American peoples effectively.