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People from Europe are European {you stated that in your post}. Following the same rules of the english language, people from the Americas are American.
I'm an Irish European. You {I think} are an American US citizen. You are as much an American as people from Mexico, or Cuba, or Canada. And the only reason I bring this up is a lot of people get pissed off when they're told "You're not American" even though they're from the Americas. US citizens kinda stole the word for describing someone from those 2 contenants.
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Dude, don't split hairs.
Yes, all of those people may be from the Americas, but nobody calls them "American." Or, if they do, they use "North" or "South American" depending on which continent they're from. But that's beside the point. In terms of conventional usage, used is right.