Why did organized efforts of farmers, workers, and local reformers largely fail to achieve substantive change in the gilded age?

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

What type of sentence has at least one independent and one dependent clause

True of false? the privy council established the laws of the colonies, but allowed them to govern themselves