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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 secure and slowly loosening families, Awakeners could not find spiritual comfort in the Secular world of the midlifers of the Glorious Generation . They seemed when coming of age in the 1730s to find it through becoming 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, 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:
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