By the late 1700s, revolutionary fever had spread to Latin America,
where the social system had led to discontent. Spanish-born
peninsulares, the highest social class, dominated the government and the
Church. Many creoles-Latin Americans of European descent who
owned the haciendas, ranches, and mines-resented their second-class
status. Mestizos, people of Native American and European descent, and
mulattoes, people of African and European descent, were angry at being
denied the status, wealth, and power that the other groups enjoyed.

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