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Identifying Primary And Secondary Sources - History Worksheet With Answer Key

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Identifying Primary and Secondary Sources

Determine if the source would be a Primary Source(P) or a secondary Source(S).

A n s w e r s

• A Primary Source is information that was created at the same time as an event or by a person

directly involved in the event.

Diaries, speeches, letters, official records, autobiographies.

• A Secondary Source is information from somewhere else or by a person not directly involved

in the event.

Encyclopedias, textbooks, book reports.

1) Rosa Parks describing her role in the Montgomery Alabama bus boycotts.

2) A journal written by Sequoyah about how he created the Cherokee alphabet.

3) A text book describing the civil war.

4) Another student reading a report about the tanks from World War 1.

5) An interview with a soldier about what it was like in Iraq.

10.

6) A friend telling you about his teacher last year.

11.

7) A movie showing the life of George Washington.

12.

8) A biography about the second president, John Adams.

13.

9) A Native American's journal describing what it was like to meet white settlers for the first

time.

14.

10) A writer talking about their latest book.

15.

11) A webpage talking about how life may have been in ancient Greece.

12) A radio recording of Walt Disney talking about Disney World.

13) A newspaper article from 2001 describing the great depression in the 1930's.

14) An autobiography about Rod Serling.

15) Your parent describing how Pilgrims came to America.

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Identifying Primary And Secondary Sources - History Worksheet With Answer Key