What was the significance of the rise of a "Creole mentality" among European colonists in the Americas?

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A. Significance of the "Creole mentality"
1. settlers came to the Americas to escape their mother countries
2. seduced by the novelties of the New World, turning their backs on the
ocean, striking inland, and seeking a new identity
3. internal economic systems developed, followed by new loyalties, and finally
by political independence
4. British colonies in America
a. most of the leaders of what became the United States thought of
themselves as Englishmen, but the sense of being American was
beginning to take shape
b. elites in British North America identified with fellow colonists
c. Americans were founding a new society, independent of Britain