Lesson 1.4 Primary and Secondary Sources Vocabulary

You are a historian researching the Civil War. You come across a diary written by a soldier during the war. This diary is an example of what?

• first hand

• primary source

• historical source

• secondary source

Direct or firsthand evidence about an event, object or person.

• eyewitness

• primary sources

• historical narrative

• secondary sources

A person who saw or lived through an event

• primary source

• historical source

• compass rose

• eyewitness

From the original source.

• first-hand

• compass rose

• present-day

• secondhand

Sources created by studying primary sources and gathering information about an event, object or person.

• primary sources

• first-hand

• secondary sources

• eyewitness

The true story of historical time or event.

• historical source

• multi-tier timeline

• historical narrative

• primary source

Information not from the original source but still accepted on another's authority.

• secondary source

• primary source

• eyewitness

• intervals