<span> Many </span>immigrants came<span> to </span>America<span> seeking greater economic opportunity, while some, such as the Pilgrims in the early 1600s, arrived in search of religious freedom.</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.
The president under whom the federal budget had its first surplus in 30 years, in 1998 and then again in 1999, 2000 (the previous surplus was 1969) was Bill Clinton.
