Primary v Secondary Sources

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Primary source documents are all of the following EXCEPT -- First hand accounts of someone's experience, An original document that does not analyze other documents, Original research

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Analysis of events

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Secondary source documents are all of the following EXCEPT: An analysis of primary sources or events, Interpretations of original documents, Sources created later by someone who did not participate in the event, Original materials

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Original materials

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Is this a primary or secondary source?
A diary titled “Life in the Mines in 1877” from a miner named Lucky Noah who lived in the Idaho mines in the 1870’s.

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Primary Source

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Is this a primary or secondary source? 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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Is this a primary or secondary source?
A chapter in your world history textbook about the Ancient Greeks

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Secondary Source

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Is this a primary or secondary source?
An original photograph from the 1941 attack at Pearl Harbor that you found in your grandparents photo album

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Primary Source

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Is this a primary or secondary source? A classroom history textbook

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Secondary Source

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Is this a primary or secondary source? A video of Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I Have a Dream" speech

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Primary Source

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Is this a primary or secondary source? An interview with a survivor of a natural disaster

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Primary Source

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Is this a primary or secondary source?
An opinion on the new movie Wakanda Forever by the editor of the school newspaper

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Secondary Source