- Creole class
The Creole class consisted of white inhabitants of the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the
Americas who were born in these colonies. They were involved in tensions with thePeninsulares , colonists born in eitherPortugal orSpain .cite book
last = Donghi
first = Tulio Halperín
title = The Contemporary History of Latin America
publisher = Duke University Press
date = 1993
pages = page 49
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=HLh7JQZhLGMC&pg=PA49&dq=%22Creole+elites%22&as_brr=3&ei=h6nRRpfkK6GQogKL3rzQBw&ie=ISO-8859-1&sig=sSRSNpJ8pTBCxmNXtUYyg9x2ous
id = ISBN 0-8223-1374-X ]Creole nationalists were among the main supporters of the
Hispanic American wars of independence . Developments under Charles III evoked distrust by the Creoles ofLatin America . Until 1760 the colonies had experienced neglect, so that Creoles of the18th century had achieved de facto independence.Fact|date=May 2008 Charles III determined to change that thoroughly. Part of theBourbon Reforms was that the native bureaucracy of the Americas (Creoles) were replaced by Spanish officials born in Spain (Peninsulares). The wealth of the colonies was used to fight Spanish wars, and religious reforms reduced the Church's privileges, which concerned mainly the lower clergy, who were mostly creoles.References
*Fowler, "Latin America 1800-2000"
ee also
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Criollo (people)
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