1. Primary and Secondary Sources

2. Primary Sources are accounts recorded at the time of an event which may include eyewitness accounts, diaries, letters, government records, ships logs, or newspaper articles. They can also be non-written forms of data such as pieces of pottery or other artifacts found by archaeologists, cave paintings, fossils, or the remains of an ancient religious site. Whether written or unwritten, primary sources are raw, unprocessed data that historians interpret as they try to reconstruct the past. Secondary Sources are accounts of the past based on research and analysis. They tend to be accounts made sometime after an event has taken place by people who were not eyewitnesses to the event. They may be based on primary sources or other secondary sources such as textbooks. Secondary sources help provide a context for research and are important starting points. They also help the historian see how others have interpreted the past and which biases may have shaped their views. Some other examples include journals and film. Both sources are valuable to historians but at the same time they must be judged for their accuracy and for their importance to the topic being researched. Historians may draw different conclusions from historical facts because their own beliefs can affect how they interpret these facts.

3. Margaret Mitchell

4. Tennyson http://www.answers.com/topic/charge-of-the-light-brigade-1 Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade

5. CPR’s workers were mostly immigrants from Europe or China making less than $2 a day. Immigrant workers were paid less and expected to do more dangerous jobs such as clearing the route. As dynamite was more expensive, construction crews used nitro-glycerin, a less stable explosive, to do the blasting. Many lost their lives and those who survived, lived in squalor trying to subsist on such meagre pay. http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10196

6. Boston Massacre http://www.bostonmassacre.net/index.html

7. Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney “The Long Count” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OeeCfbahwQ