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  2. Third Great Awakening - Wikipedia

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    The Third Great Awakening refers to a historical period proposed by William G. McLoughlin that was marked by religious activism in American history and spans the late 1850s to the early 20th century. [ 1 ] [ page needed ] It influenced pietistic Protestant denominations and had a strong element of social activism. [ 2 ]

  3. History of the United States (1865–1917) - Wikipedia

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    The Third Great Awakening was a period of renewal in Evangelical Protestantism from the late 1850s to the 1900s. [68] It affected pietistic Protestant denominations and had a strong sense of social activism. [69] It gathered strength from the postmillennial theology that the Second Coming of Christ would come after mankind had reformed the ...

  4. Great Awakening - Wikipedia

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    The Second Great Awakening (sometimes known simply as "the Great Awakening") was a religious revival that occurred in the United States beginning in the late eighteenth century and lasting until the middle of the nineteenth century. While it occurred in all parts of the United States, it was especially strong in the Northeast and the Midwest. [15]

  5. History of religion in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Third Great Awakening was a period of religious activism in American history from the late 1850s to the 20th century. It affected pietistic Protestant denominations and had a strong sense of social activism. It gathered strength from the postmillennial theology that the Second Coming of Christ would come after mankind had reformed the ...

  6. History of conservatism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Religious conservatives of this period sponsored a large and flourishing media network, especially based on magazines, many with close ties to the Protestant churches that were rapidly expanding due to the Third Great Awakening. Catholics had few magazines but opposed agrarianism in politics and established hundreds of schools and colleges to ...

  7. Category:Great Awakenings - Wikipedia

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    Each of these "Great Awakenings" was characterized by widespread revivals led by evangelical Protestant ministers, a sharp increase of interest in religion, a profound sense of conviction and redemption on the part of those affected, an increase in evangelical church membership, and the formation of new religious movements and denominations.

  8. Christianity in the modern era - Wikipedia

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    The Third Great Awakening began from 1857 and was most notable for taking the movement throughout the world, especially in English speaking countries. The final group to emerge from the "great awakenings" in North America was Pentecostalism , which had its roots in the Methodist, Wesleyan, and Holiness movements, and began in 1906 on Azusa ...

  9. History of the United States (1849–1865) - Wikipedia

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    During the third act, a Confederate sympathizer named John Wilkes Booth shot and killed Abraham Lincoln. As he fled the scene, he yelled " Sic semper tyrannis ", the Virginia state motto. John Wilkes Booth was tracked, twelve days later, to a farm near Bowling Green, Virginia , on April 26.