Question

Which of these would be considered a primary source?


a presidential candidate’s tax records

a biography of a general

a textbook passage about a queen’s reign

a web article about a World War I soldier

Answer 1

a primary source would be something like a direct quote.

Answer 2

Say some war general writes in a diary, then the diary is a primary source, what he said is a primary source

Answer 3

the first one. beacuse they are a recorded peice of knowlede that was kept as a first thing. Primary means first