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Primary and Secondary Sources Review

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Label the continents on the map.

2.

Label the oceans and features on the map.

3.

A speech given by Barak Obama

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

4.

An encyclopedia entry on blue whales.

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

5.

An interview with John F. Kennedy.

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

6.

The autobiography of Nelson Mandela.

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

7.

The World History textbook you use in class.

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

8.

An original government document called the “The Immigration Act of 1923.”

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

9.

Letters written by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

10.

Photographs of migrant farm worker camps during the Great Depression.

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

11.

A TV show about Al Capone.

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

12.

A diary written by your grandma.

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

13.

A Rolling Stone article from 2012 titled “Why We Lost the War in Afghanistan.” 

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

14.

An original photograph of Cleveland in the 1930s.

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

15.

A 1940 Ford pickup truck that you saw at a local history museum.  

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

16.

A book published in 1996 titled “The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit.”

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

17.

A Wikipedia article on The Soviet Union.

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

18.

A complete copy of the Declaration of Independence that you found online.

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

19.

A _ _ is a source that was made during the time period or event that is being studied, or made by someone who was involved in or witnessed the time period or event.

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

c)

tertiary source

d)

reliable source

20.

A _ _ is a source that was made after the time period that is being studied.

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

c)

tertiary source

d)

reliable source

21.
A primary source is also called a ​ (a)   source because it comes directly from someone who was ​ (b)   .  A primary source is written during the ​ (c)   that the event happened.  A secondary source is also called a ​ (d)   source.  A secondary source is written ​ (e)   the event has happened.​
Choose from the below words
first-hand
there
time
second-hand
after