Third Great Awakening

The Third Great Awakening was a period in American history from 1886 to 1908. It is also called the Missionary Awakening.

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1886 - 1908

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The Awakening's beginning (one of several Great Awakenings throughout US history) is associated with the Haymarket riot and student missionary movements. It was characterized by agrarian protest and labor violence, climaxing with the revivalist candidacy of William Jennings Bryan in 1896. Gilded Age plutocracy came under harsh attack from trust-blasting muckrakers, Billy Sunday-style evangelicals, "new woman" feminists and chautauqua dreamers. After the Progressive movement radicalized and split, passions cooled when William Howard Taft succeeded Theodore Roosevelt in the White House.

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Great Awakenings - Haymarket riot - William Jennings Bryan - 1896 - Gilded Age - Billy Sunday - Chautauqua - Progressive movement - William Howard Taft - Theodore Roosevelt

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