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《問題》 次の英文の中で青色で示した語句の意味を答えてください。
（初めに右欄で英語を１つ選び、続いて選択肢から１つを選んでください。やり直すときは、英語を選び直すことから始めてください。右の［単語帳］を参考にすることもできます。）
The United States Constitution guarantees freedoms such as freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of religion.
The Bill of Rights in the Constitution protects these and other individual rights.
But the government has not always honored all of the rights in the Constitution.
Constitution：憲法，Bill of Rights：権利章典
In the seventeen hundreds, for example, President John Adams supported laws to stop Thomas Jefferson and the Democratic Party from criticizing the government.
During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln took strong actions to prevent newspapers from printing military news. And, during the nineteen fifties, Senator Joseph McCarthy accused innocent people of being communists and traitors.
the Civil War：南北戦争，
senator：上院議員，Joseph McCarthy：ジョセフ・マッカーシー（1950年代に「赤狩り」を主導した）
Some of the most serious government attacks on personal rights took place in nineteen nineteen and nineteen twenty.
A number of government officials took sometimes unlawful actions against labor leaders, foreigners and others.
These actions took place because of American fears about the threat of communism.
Those fears were tied closely to the growth of the organized labor movement during World War One.
There were a number of strikes during the war.
More and more often, workers were willing to risk their jobs and join together to try to improve working conditions.
be willing to：喜んで〜する，working conditions：労働条件
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