- A system of coerced labor in which people from Europe promisedto work for a certain amount of time in exchange for their paidpassage to the New World.- Developed as a result of the demand for cheap labor for the large colonial plantations in North America, which by the 1600s were focused on the production of cash crops such as tobacco and cotton.- Unlike the Spanish, who had success in drafting the native population for labor needs, colonists in North America were unsuccessful in forcing natives to work on their plantations and thus needed an alternative labor supply.- Although this system lasted until the 20th century, plantation owners in the 17th century looking for an even cheaper supply of workers began to import African slaves.

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