WorksheetsPrimary and Secondary Sources
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 11mins
A diary titled “Life in the Mines” from a miner named Lucky Noah who lived in Idaho in the 1870’s
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
A magazine article from 2011 titled “Mining in the Old West in the 1860’s-1890’s”
Primary Source
Secondary Source
A Primary Source is anything that was written, used, or owned by the people who actually lived during a specific time period and actually made history.
(a)
An original photograph from the 1941 attack at Pearl Harbor that you found in your grandparent's photo album
Primary Source
Secondary Source
What is secondary source?
A biography about Abraham Lincoln
Primary Source
Secondary Source
Which of these is a Secondary Source?
Textbook
WWI Uniform
Journal by a woman in the 1800
A letter written about the California gold rush by a Miner
Secondary sources are materials that were created (a) the event
What is NOT an original document?
Diaries
manuscripts
Encyclopedia
news film footage
Draw an example of a secondary source.
