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American Generations
Term Period
Awakening Generation 1701–1723
First Great Awakening 1730–1740
Liberty Generation
Republican Generation
Compromise Generation 		1724–1741
1742–1766
1767–1791
Second Great Awakening 1790–1840
Transcendentalist Generation
Transcendental Generation
Abolitionist Generation
Gilded Generation
Progressive Generation 		1789–1819
1792–1821
1819–1842
1822–1842
1843–1859
Third Great Awakening aka Missionary Awakening 1886–1908
Missionary Generation
Lost Generation
Interbellum Generation
G.I. Generation
Greatest Generation 		1860–1882
1883–1900
1900–1910
1900–1924
1911–1924
Jazz Age aka American High 1929–1956
Silent Generation
Baby boomer>Baby Boomers
Beat Generation
Generation Jones 		1925–1945
1946–1964
1948–1962
1954–1965
Consciousness Revolution 1964–1984
Baby Busters
Generation X
MTV Generation
1958–1968
1961–1981
1975–1985
Culture Wars 1984–2005
Boomerang Generation
Generation Y
Internet generation
New Silent Generation 		1981–1986
1977–2003
1986–1999
2001–

The Awakening Generation is the name given by Strauss and Howe in their book Generations to those Americans born from 1701 to 1723.

Born into security in an age in which family discipline loosened, Awakeners could find little spiritual comfort in the secular world of the midlifers of the Glorious Generation. Coming of age in the 1730s they became much more emotionally involved in religious practice through studying the Bible in a more personal manner. This movement, known as the First Great Awakening, gives the generation its name, and also gave it a "Puritan" label.

However, only when they saw that these attempts to create a new order had failed the younger Liberty Generation, did they pay much attention to worldly affairs. In doing so, the Awakeners devised an entirely new vision of an America where all people stood on an equal footing under God, and where education aimed at spiritual virtue rather than social utility. This led the Awakeners to very strong patriotism during the American Revolution in their elderhood, when Charles Chauncy saw death fighting for freedom as preferable to the corruption engendered by British rule.

Altogether, about 550,000 Americans were born between 1701 and 1723; 19 percent were immigrants and 18 percent were slaves at any point in their lives. Their typical grandparents were of the Cavalier Generation; their parents of the Glorious Generation and Enlightenment Generation. Their children were of the Liberty Generation and Republican Generation and their typical grandchildren were of the Compromise Generation.

This is the first generation in American history to attract attention outside America. It created the intellectual fire of the American Revolution. The oldest generation present at the establishment of the Constitution of the United States, it still wielded influence even in advanced age. Before it made its mark, the British colonies in North America could be treated as a cultural, political, and economic backwater. After it made its mark, this generation had established a new nation that from its inception has been a cultural, political, and economic power.

Members

The following is a list of sample members with birth and death dates as this generation is fully ancestral:

The Awakening Generation was the last generation until the Silent Generation to produce no US presidents. However, it held colonial governorships over the following periods:

Cultural endowments of the Awakening Generation include:

Foreign Peers

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