Question

Which source would best help a historian understand how the Great Chicago Fire affected families?

Answer 1

Options?

Answer 2

a biography of a Chicago family displaced by the fire

a letter from a grandmother in New York to her family in Chicago

a newspaper editorial about families who were displaced

an oral history dictated by an adolescent who fled the fire

Answer 3

I would say either the newspaper article if it is from the time period or the oral history. Closest thing to a primary source.

Answer 4

thanks a lot it was oral history