1. Primary vs. Secondary Sources

2. Primary Sources
Primary Sources: objects or documents created during the time period you are studying

3. Examples of Primary Sources
Newspapers
Letters
Photographs
Paintings
Maps
Diaries
Journals
Artifacts
Recordings
Court records
Legal Documents

4. Advantages of Primary Sources
Historians like using primary sources because they give us eye-witness accounts of what happened during the time period
They were created by people who were actually there

5. Disadvantages of Primary Sources
Very valuable to historians, but there are a couple of problems:
Sometimes the vocabulary is hard to understand
Sometimes they are biased
they only give you one side of the story

6. Secondary Sources
Secondary sources: created after the time period you are studying
Created by someone who was NOT an eye- witness to the event

7. Examples of Secondary Sources
Textbooks
Encyclopedias
Internet Sites
Historical fiction
...and many more

8. Advantages of Secondary Sources
Historians create secondary sources after looking at many primary sources
They are valuable to historians because they collect the information from primary sources in one place
They are usually not as biased as primary sources

9. Disadvantages of Secondary Sources
People who create secondary sources were not there when the events happened
Information can sometimes be skewed or distorted.
In other words, sometimes information may not depict the actual occurrence or event 100% accurately

10. US II Immigration Downtrodden- oppressed, treated badly
Stringent- strict
Renders- to cause to be or become

11. Think about this….