Primary and Secondary Sources

A textbook chapter on the Civil War

• primary source

• secondary source

A biography of Abraham Lincoln

• primary source

• secondary source

A movie about the Revolutionary War

• primary source

• secondary source

A journal written by a civil war soldier

• primary source

• secondary source

A report written on Barack Obama

• primary source

• secondary source

A diary written by President Roosevelt

• primary source

• secondary source

Which of the following shows a primary source?

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An autobiography written by Winston Churchill

• primary source

• secondary source

A play about World War II

• primary source

• secondary source

The Declaration of Independence

• primary source

• secondary source