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Use the quotation and your knowledge of social studies to answer the question.

“I do, [by] the authority to me given by His Majesty, determine to execute martial law . . . . I do require every person . . . to resort to His Majesty’s standard, or be looked upon as traitors to His Majesty’s government, . . . [subject to] the penalty. . .”

– Proclamation of Virginia governor Lord Dunmore, November 1775
According to Lord Dunmore, what group of people will be looked upon as traitors?


Virginians

Loyalists

Monarchs

Patriots