<span>vigilante committees were basically formed to administer law and order where most considered it to be governmental structures inadequate. </span>
The Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, was an intellectual and cultural movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith. Empiricism promotes the idea that knowledge comes from experience and observation of the world.
Farmers were overproducing therefore it their crops lost their value.
