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Practice judging how historical sources can and cannot be used.
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30 questions
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A class is investigating what soldiers faced in the trenches at Verdun in 1916. Which source is primary for that question?
Students want to know what grievances French villagers sent to the Estates-General in 1789. Which source is primary for that question?
A research question asks how newspapers in Tokyo reacted when the Meiji Constitution was announced in 1889. Which source is primary?
A student is studying what reforms Ottoman officials promised in the Tanzimat era. Which source would be primary?
A class asks how people in Delhi described the fighting during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Which source is primary?
Researchers want the rules European powers agreed to at the Berlin Conference. Which source is primary for that question?
A student asks what Beijing demonstrators demanded during the May Fourth protests of 1919. Which source is primary?
A class studies how British abolitionists tried to persuade readers in the late 1700s. Which source is primary?
A student must bring one secondary source on the Mongol Empire. Which should she bring?
Which item is a secondary source for a research project on the Black Death in Europe?
A teacher asks for a secondary source on the Haitian Revolution. Which choice fits?
Which source is secondary for studying the Cuban Missile Crisis?
A student needs a secondary source on child labor in British textile mills. Which source should he use?
A Portuguese ship captain kept a 1502 log of winds, rations and water stops on a voyage to India. What is it strongest evidence for?
An Ottoman tax register from 1570 lists villages, households and assessed taxes in one province. What is it strongest evidence for?
A Qing official in Guangzhou issued an 1839 order against the opium trade. What is that order strongest evidence for?
A British factory inspector's 1833 report describes machines, hours and injuries in mills he visited. What can it best show?
An 1827 ship manifest lists enslaved people transported on one vessel, with ages and destination. What is it strongest evidence for?
An Aztec tribute list from the early 1500s names towns and goods owed to imperial officials. What is it strongest evidence for?
A Berlin school textbook printed in 1935 explains the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. For which question is the textbook itself a primary source?
A museum label written in London in 2020 explains the British seizure of Benin Bronzes in 1897. For which study is the label primary?
A Soviet encyclopedia article from 1965 describes Napoleon's invasion of Russia. For which investigation is the article primary?
A Japanese textbook printed in Tokyo in 1890 summarizes Tokugawa rule. For which question does it count as a primary source?
A researcher has one Spanish soldier's account of the conquest of Tenochtitlan. What should she do before treating it as settled fact?
A student has only a British officer's report on the Amritsar massacre of 1919. What is the best next step?
A plantation owner's diary says enslaved workers in Saint-Domingue were satisfied before 1791. What should a historian do?
A Soviet harvest report from a Ukrainian district in 1932 says grain quotas were met easily. What would strengthen the investigation?
A historian wants to track how an English village's population rose and fell from 1600 to 1750. Which record answers most directly?
A researcher asks how wheat prices changed month by month in Ottoman Cairo from 1700 to 1720. Which record answers most directly?
A historian needs the exact peace terms that ended the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. Which record answers directly?
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