Why is the period from 1600 to 1800 called the age of reason

Analyze the responses of president franklin roosevelt's administration to the problems of the great depression. how effective were these responses? how did they change the role of the federal government

The naturalization act affected the political process by

“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