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This page shows a list of test questions in the 8th Grade Social Studies public release collection at MSDE. 8th Grade Social Studies
Standard "4.0 Economics," Indicator "CW.2 …"

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Well, I will tell you something of the scene which I witnessed today. The women, said to be soldiers’ wives, met this morning at 8 o’clock . . .  They then went on Main Street to a shoe shop, cut and pried, broke down windows’ frames, broke out glass and went in at the windows, got large quantities of shoes, calicoes, shawls and any and everything they could get and went on a great many streets and done the same.

—Excerpt from a letter written by a Georgia soldier, April, 1863

What obstacle faced by civilians during the Civil War is described in this excerpt?

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Select three challenges that civilians faced during the Civil War.