Complex sentence: The Shearer Schoolhouse Revival--a series of meetings conducted in the summer of 1896 in Cherokee County, North Carolina, United States--was characterized by what participants believed to be the biblical experience of speaking in tongues.
Split into simpler sentences: The Shearer Schoolhouse Revival was a religious phenomenon that occurred during a series of meetings conducted in the summer of 1896 in Cherokee County, North Carolina, United States. The revival was characterized by what participants believed to be the biblical experience of speaking in tongues.