1950, a junior senator named Joseph McCarthy went on the offensive against communist subversion . Unlike many other investigators, McCarthy declared that he possessed concrete facts: a list containing the names of Soviet sympathizers holding high ranks in the US government . McCarthy went on to terrorize and abuse people from all walks of life for several years . The senator's investigation into high-ranking military personnelled to his final undoing and censure by the Senate. In retrospect , people believe that McCarthy never had a legitimate list of names and that his attacks were predominantly fabricated , leading to the popular conception of McCarthy as an amoral political opportunist . "

What was MOST LIKELY McCarthy's motivation for his inquiries ?
A-government security and integrity
B-resentment toward communism
C-personal gain and prestige
D-adherence to capitalism

Which fact from the tinker v. des moines court decision best supports the reasoning that the conduct of the student protesters was protected by the fourteenth amendment, which prohibits deprivation of life, liberty, or property? o a. the record shows that students in some of the schools wore buttons relating to national political campaigns, and some even wore the iron cross, traditionally a symbol of nazism. o b. on the other hand, the court has repeatedly emphasized the need for affirming the comprehensive authority of the states and of school officials, consistent with fundamental constitutional safeguards, to prescribe and control conduct in the schools. c. the action of the school authorities appears to have been based on an urgent wish to avoid the controversy which might result from the expression, even by the silent symbol of armbands, of opposition to this nation's part in the conflagration in vietnam. d. that they are educating the young for citizenship is reason for scrupulous protection of constitutional freedoms of the individual. if we are not to strangle the free mind at its source and teach youth to discount important principles of our government as mere platitudes.