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Type in the content of your page here.Every source you use is to be listed in your [|bibliography]. Every source you quote is to be cited in your paper or presentation. Tag your sources in [] with Civilwar, your name, and the topic Example tag= civilwar, paulb, africanamericansoldiers, soldiers, images


 * Topic: H.L. Hunley**

Need some "starters" to help you brainstorm a thesis? Give your thesis the thesis test
 * What's your point? (**[|**thesis**]**):**

What are four various secondary sources you have found before your research?

What are two primary sources you have found to help your research?


 * What four reasons do you have that will back up your point?**

1. Built

2.Use

3. Died

4. Recovered

Built 1. made in 1863 by Park and Lyons of Mobile, Alabama 2. made of a cylinder shaped steam boiler that was lengthened and deepened through the addition of tapered ends 3. each end had ballast tanksthat could be flooded by valves or pumped dry manually
 * What is your first reason and three to five facts to support it?**

What can you conclude from these facts? the building of the Hunley seems to have been very simple.

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Used 1. designed to be hand powered by a crew of nine (8 to crank propellor and 1 to steer) 2. Confederate submarine in undersea warfare 3. job was to attack USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor off the coast of SC
 * What is your second reason and three to five facts to support it?**

What can you conclude from these facts? had a big job that was to attack and sink the enemy ship

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sunk 1. Feb 17, 1864-rammed Housatonic with spar torpedo (packed with explosive powder and attatched to long bow0 torpedo embedded itself in Housatonic 2. Housatonic exploded-5 members died- that explosion also sank Hunley and its 9 members 3. became first submarine to sink a ship in wartime
 * What is your third reason and three to five facts to support it?**

What can you conclude from these facts? the Hunley successfully accomplished its mission...however while sinking itself in the process

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recovered 1. found 131 years later 2. Clive Cussler and his team from National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA) descovered it after 14 year search 3. evidence of parts found underwater- forward hatch and ventilator box 4. rested on its side at about a 45 degree angle, over years built up a coating on its surface
 * What is your fourth reason and three to five facts to support it?**

What can you conclude from these facts? After a long search, the Hunley was fonud again and has gone down in history.

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Ideas on how you are going to present? Involve the class? Be exciting? Interesting? Wow? Huh? Ahhh?
 * Based on your research, what conclusions would you make and how does your research connect to your life?**

it was creately very simple, to attack and sink the enemy ship. After it sank, it was recovered and is now known for its amazing actions and as the first submarine to sink a ship i wartime.