Answer: The dec. of independence was a document stating that men from England wanted freedom to start a new country in America.
Explanation: Jefferson and the other men that signed it all came in terms. These people wanted out of England’s ways and rules. Starting a new country was ideal. Creating a document was the more formal way for the split however with war breaking out to gain the country back, the document was a threat to England leaders.
I think it may have had something to do with Brit and France helping them win the war. Thus it made them as a fall back or cushion for the ottoman empire because they felt that they where able to rely on them now.