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Why do you think Americans needed an offical document to declare independance?

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The Declaration summarized the colonists’ motivations for seeking independence. By declaring themselves an independent nation, the American colonists were able to confirm an official alliance with the Government of France and obtain French assistance in the war against Great Britain. So basically so it could be official
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