1. What was the difference between Creoles and peninsulares?

Peninsulares were officials born in Europe who held all the important government positions. Creoles were descendants of Europeans born in Latin America and they were treated as second class citizens. Mestizos were offspring of those Europeans who married with Native Americans.

Explanation:

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts