Question

Which of the following best describes how women in South Carolina contributed to the American Revolution?
A. They volunteered as scouts to recruit and lead a group of loyalists who defeated patriots.
B. They produced cloth goods to boycott British goods and volunteered as scouts to defeat British troops.
C. They organized boycotts throughout the thirteen colonies and created textiles to boycott British goods.
D. They created uniforms for soldiers fighting in the war and warned loyalists of patriot attacks.

Answer 1

C

Women in South Carolina (like elsewhere in the colonies) organized and supported boycotts of British goods and produced homespun textiles to replace imported cloth. They also aided the war effort in other ways (supplying food, nursing, fundraising, and sometimes intelligence), but the primary widespread contribution was organizing boycotts and making textiles.