ANSWER:
In the middle of the 18th century, creoles of Spanish origin controlled a good part of commerce and agrarian property, so they had great economic power and great social consideration, but were displaced from the main political positions in favor of those born in Spain. .
Explanation:
The "economic independence" made that the Creoles could have more liberties, reason why several of them amassed great fortunes. Even in the religious field the differences between peninsular and creoles were drastically reduced. Many creoles became black veiled nuns, abbesses, etc. and the men came to occupy important positions in the archbishopric.
The children of the Spaniards born in America - Creoles - gradually increased in number and swelled the highest social class. In the 18th century, they began to call themselves Americans and fervently disputed the main public positions with the peninsular. This struggle cracked the unity and interests that had united the white group in previous centuries, sowing the seed for the emancipation of the American colonies.
Creole and peninsular were never very numerous. In the middle of the 16th century there were about 150,000 of them in Spanish America, a figure that increased to 660,000 averaging the following century. Only at the beginning of the 18th century did the white population exceed one million inhabitants.
But it was not only money that determined social stratification during the colonial era. From the first moments of the conquest, the Spanish joined the aboriginal women sexually, thus creating the mestizo.
