<p>Please help me with the following passage-based question.</p>
<p>Passage:
Among the founding fathers, there was no controversy or debate on the definition of a voter as male. The United States Constitution embodied the patriarchal assumption shaped by the entire society, that women could not participate in government. It was felt necessary by the founders to define the status of indentured servants, slaves, and American Indians in regard to voting rights, but there was no need felt even to mention, much less to explain or justify, that while women were to be counted among "the whole number of free persons" in each state for purposes of representation, they had no right to vote or to be elected to public office. The issue of civil and political status of women never entered the debate.</p>
<p>Yet women in large numbers had been involved in political actions in the American Revolution and had begun to define themselves differently than had their mothers and grandmothers. At the very least, they had found ways of exerting influence on political events by fund-raising, tea boycotts, and actions against profiteering merchants. Loyalist women (those that sided with the British) made political claims when they argued for their property rights independent of those of their husbands or when they protested against various wartime atrocities. Several influential female members of elite families privately raised the issue of women's rights as citizens. Unbidden and without a recognized public forum, and emboldened by the revolutionary rhetoric and the language of democracy, women began to reinterpret their own status. Like the slaves, women took literally the preamble of Declaration of Independence, whic states that all men are created equal. The institution of slavery was hotly contested by the founding fathers and highly controversial. But unlike slaves, women were not defined as being even problematic in the debate.</p>
<p>Question: The author mentions "Loyalist women" (Line 20) to demonstrate that
A) women who demanded property rights during the American Revolution were not considered disloyal
B) women on both sides of the American Revolution engaged in political activities
C) Loyalist women were more vocal about their political views than other women
D) Loyalist women were noted for their tea boycotts and fund-raising
E) Loyalist women tended to be more socially influential than those who supported the revolution.</p>