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Well, for one, the declaration helped the thirteen colonies break away from Great Britain and the tyranny that was going on. It showed that we were now free, independent states and no longer part of Britain.

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The signers essentially became traitors to their own Country. They could have faced death as a possible outcome and certainly prison, which was not a happy place in that era.

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