2. Women in the Revolution
• Managed farms and plantations
• Served as messengers or nurses
• Some lost their homes and
fortunes to the Patriot or Loyalist
cause

4. Native Americans in the Revolution
• Avoided the war at first
• Retaliated to attacks on the
frontier
• Many (including the Cherokee)
supported the British because
they promised to return land

6. African Americans in the Revolution
• Some (very few) served as soldiers in the
Continental Army
• South Carolina fought the idea of slaves serving as
soldiers; insisted they could only work as cooks or
other jobs that didn’t require weapons
• Eventually, they agreed that up to 1/3 of the militia
could be made up of slaves
• Some slaves served in partisan bands
• The British promised freedom to those who would
fight for them