Primary source; if a piece of information, such as an article from 1776, is a primary source because someone was there at the scene. However, a textbook is a secondary source since it extracts information from other sources
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The colonists criticized the Stamp Acts as "taxation without representation", because the colonists did not have consent over this form of taxation imposed on them. It was a decision made in the British Parliament without anyone representing the colonies when this decision was upheld.