Discuss the Major Issues That Influenced Creole Thinking and Creole Action in the Struggle for Independence Against Spain.

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Creole thinking and Creole action throughout the struggle for independence against the Spanish became a found expression due the feeling of anguish, nostalgia and resentment, Also these people viewed themselves as disposed family which were stripped of their birthright. Respect rejected, free trade revoked and other revolution that became successful were major reasons which influenced the creole mindset which propelled Independence for these colonies. The new world consisted of thriving class creoles by the eighteenth century which involved both males and females, all whom are of European ancestry born in the new world. However the late 16th century marked the beginning of a new chapter for the crillo (creole) people, they felt as if the crown was ignoring their sole rights to be able to gain financial stability from the land in which their descendants conquered and lived also asserted by Gomez de Cervantes power is founded in merchants and trade and not the leading citizens and nobles. However he felt these men who previously serve in stores and tavern and other low occupation are now actually in the most honorable positions in the country while the descendants are poor humiliated and disfavored and cast down. The Crillo patience were wearing thin as there feeling of entitlement was becoming a faint reality, as they were being consistently ignored by the Crown. Bernal Diaz del Castillo charged that the crown failed to reward their heroic services with adequate recompense . The need for independence also stemmed from the need to be profiting from the expansion of the export economy which involved silver mining, trans-Atlantic trade and new frontiers but being refused that to take part , which also proved that colonial elite ignored their birthright . Creole thinking and Action which entailed needing freedom to exercise the provisions of being direct
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