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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 Compromise Generation is that name given to the generation of Americans born from 1767 to 1791 by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations. As Henry Clay later recalled, this generation grew up "rocked in the cradle of the Revolution" as they watched brave adults struggle and triumph. Compliantly coming of age, they offered a new erudition, expertise, and romantic sensibility to their heroic elders' Age of Improvement. As young adults, they became what historian Matthew Cremson calls "the administrative founding fathers" and soldiered a Second War for Independence whose glory could never compare with the first. In midlife, they mentored populist movements, fretted over slavery and Indian removal, and presided over the Compromise of 1850 that reflected their irresolution. As elders during the American Civil War, they feared that their "postheroic" mission had failed and that the United States might not outlive them.

The Compromisers' typical grandparents were of the Awakening Generation. Their parents were of the Liberty Generation and Republican Generation. Their children were of the Transcendental Generation and Gilded Generation; their typical grandchildren were of the Progressive Generation.

Altogether, about 4.2 million Americans were born from 1767 to 1791. 10 percent were immigrants and 15 percent were slaves at any point in their lives.

Members

Sample Compromisers with birth and death dates as this generation is fully ancestral include the following:

The Compromisers had seven U.S. Presidents: The Compromisers had a plurality in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1813 to 1835, a plurality in the U.S. Senate from 1813 to 1841, and a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1829 to 1860.

The cultural endowments of the Compromisers include the following:

Foreign Peers

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