Answer:
1. The objects considered suspicious were totally harmless objects and used for educational purposes such as maps, photographs, books and math tests thrown in the trash.
2. This cartoon is showing how the Anti-Subversive Committees were useless and existed to intimidate innocent people, without any evidence to incriminate them.
Explanation:
The cartoon presented in the question above is a criticism of the Anti-Subversive Committees, which claimed to be fighting a communist threat in the country, but acted abusively, making absurd decisions and intimidating innocent people who had no connection with the communist party, such as the teachers, as shown in the cartoon. People interrogated and monitored by these committees, without any incriminating evidence.
"A defense alliance of Eastern Woodland nations" is the best answer. This alliance was formed between Natives as a response to increasing European settlement in the Northeast.
Virginia was in tatters after a series of battles in the first years of the war, so Lee was hoping to give Virginia some relief and to take the battle North into Northern territory to inflict damage onto the towns of the North. This would have the added benefit of a psychological blow for the North, if they were to lose a battle on their own turf.