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===Name Change===
===Name Change===
Between the [[Woodrow Wilson]] presidency, and the success of conservatism during the [[Roaring Twenties]] and the Presidency of [[Calvin Coolidge]], progressivism as an ideology was nearly lost. Then, along came [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]]. At his acceptance speech for the Nomination for President on the Democrat ticket, FDR himself is the one who led the way toward renaming the ideology.
Between the [[Woodrow Wilson]] presidency, and the success of conservatism during the [[Roaring Twenties]] and the Presidency of [[Calvin Coolidge]], progressivism as an ideology was nearly lost. Then, along came [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]]. At his acceptance speech for the Nomination for President on the Democrat ticket, FDR himself is the one who led the way toward renaming the ideology.<ref>[http://thefederalist.com/2014/10/24/the-new-republic-cant-help-its-progressive-control-freak-tendencies/ The New Republic Can’t Help Its Progressive, Control-Freak Tendencies]</ref>
[[Image:FDR002.jpg|thumb|180px|right|Franklin D. Roosevelt changed the name from ''Progressivism'' to ''Liberalism'']]
[[Image:FDR002.jpg|thumb|180px|right|Franklin D. Roosevelt changed the name from ''Progressivism'' to ''Liberalism'']]
During the speech, FDR proclaimed that the party was the party of "real progress, of real justice, of real equality" and that the party should "feel that in everything we do there still lives with us, if not the body, the great indomitable, unquenchable, progressive soul of our Commander-in-Chief, Woodrow Wilson."<ref name=transformationspeech>[http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=75174 Address Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago], July 2, 1932</ref> In addition, FDR made it a point to link progress and liberalism, saying that the Democrat Party "is the bearer of liberalism and of progress", and finally he set the new title in motion:
During the speech, FDR proclaimed that the party was the party of "real progress, of real justice, of real equality" and that the party should "feel that in everything we do there still lives with us, if not the body, the great indomitable, unquenchable, progressive soul of our Commander-in-Chief, Woodrow Wilson."<ref name=transformationspeech>[http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=75174 Address Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago], July 2, 1932</ref> In addition, FDR made it a point to link progress and liberalism, saying that the Democrat Party "is the bearer of liberalism and of progress", and finally he set the new title in motion: