Primary and Secondary Sources

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Classify the diary titled “Life in the Mines” from a miner named Lucky Noah who lived in Idaho in the 1870’s.

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Primary Sources

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A magazine article from 2011 titled “Mining in the Old West in the 1860’s-1890’s”

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Secondary Source

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A Primary Source is

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written, used, or owned by the people who actually lived during a specific time period and actually made history.

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An original photograph from the 1941 attack at Pearl Harbor that you found in your grandparent's photo album

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Primary Source

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A biography about Abraham Lincoln

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Secondary Source

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Which of these is a Secondary Source?

Textbook

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WWI Uniform

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Journal by a woman in the 1800

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A letter written about the California gold rush by a Miner

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Textbook

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Secondary sources are materials that were created _____ the event

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After

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What is NOT an original document?
Options: Diaries, manuscripts, Encyclopedia, news film footage

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Encyclopedia