The Declaration of Independence finally gave back Americans their own country from British control.
The Americans could no longer bear to be controlled in the way that the British treated them.
One year after the battle of Lexington and Concord in 1755, which was the first battle fought in the revolution, the Americans and British signed the Declaration of Independence.
Now they were finally free.
The Committee of Five made the Declaration of Independence.
( Resolved: That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.)
--The Declaration of Independence