 Before the war, many Quakers possessed extensive economic and political power in several states, most notably in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.However, the war had alienated the pacifist Quakers from their neighbors, causing most Friends in power to begin withdrawing from active political life as early as the 1760s.The Revolution increased American Quakers' sense of isolation, consequently making postwar Quakerism less culturally diverse and more dogmatically unified.