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[[Image:Edward Bellamy.jpg|thumb|75px|right|Edward Bellamy]]

[[Image:Edward Bellamy.jpg|thumb|75px|right|Edward Bellamy]]

===Pre-Progressive Era===

===Pre-Progressive Era===

The first progressive thinkers and hence the dawn of modern progressivism has been traced back to the publication of [[Looking Backward]],<ref name=ushistory>[http://www.ushistory.org/us/42a.asp 42a. Roots of the Movement], Progressivism Sweeps the Nation</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Goldberg |first1=Jonah |year=2008 |title=Liberal Fascism |publisher=Random House |pages=215 |quote=It's hard to fix a specific starting date for the progressive race for the Great Society, but a good guess might be 1888, the year Edward Bellamy's novel ''Looking Backward'' burst on the American scene.  One of the most influential works of progressive propaganda ever conceived.}}</ref> where author [[Edward Bellamy]] uses the label of ''Nationalism'' to create a movement aiming toward greater state power at the expense of the individual.

The first progressive thinkers and hence the dawn of modern progressivism [[Henry George]]'s book [[Progress and Poverty]].<ref name=ushistory /><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=RdseBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA279 Knights of the Golden Rule: The Intellectual as Christian Social Reformer in the 1890s], "[[Jacob Riis]] dated the awakening from 1879 specifically because of the publication of George's book."</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=TPccAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA246&lpg=PA246 Henry George and the Beginnings of Revolutionary Socialism in the United States], The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science</ref> (See section [[Henry George#Ideological Influence|Henry George: Ideological Influence]])  Early on, supporters of George (sometimes called "Georgists") contrasted themselves as "progressives" (a cue to the book title) in contrast with the "moderates" who supported land ownership.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/cyclopedicreview02bostuoft The Cyclopedic review of current history], 1893, Quote: "The landlord element style themselves "Moderates," and the tenant element are known as "Progressives." The latter claimed that public improvements should be paid for by the land-owners; and the issue was joined on that as well as other points."</ref>

Another book that had far reaching implications for the coming birth of progressive ideology was [[Henry George]]'s book [[Progress and Poverty]].<ref name=ushistory /><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=RdseBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA279 Knights of the Golden Rule: The Intellectual as Christian Social Reformer in the 1890s], "[[Jacob Riis]] dated the awakening from 1879 specifically because of the publication of George's book."</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=TPccAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA246&lpg=PA246 Henry George and the Beginnings of Revolutionary Socialism in the United States], The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science</ref> (See section [[Henry George#Ideological Influence|Henry George: Ideological Influence]])

Another book that had far reaching implications for the coming birth of progressive ideology was the publication of [[Looking Backward]],<ref name=ushistory>[http://www.ushistory.org/us/42a.asp 42a. Roots of the Movement], Progressivism Sweeps the Nation</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Goldberg |first1=Jonah |year=2008 |title=Liberal Fascism |publisher=Random House |pages=215 |quote=It's hard to fix a specific starting date for the progressive race for the Great Society, but a good guess might be 1888, the year Edward Bellamy's novel ''Looking Backward'' burst on the American scene.  One of the most influential works of progressive propaganda ever conceived.}}</ref> where author [[Edward Bellamy]] uses the label of ''Nationalism'' to create a movement aiming toward greater state power at the expense of the individual.  As "progressive minded" individuals increased in numbers over the decade of 1890, their popularity turned into a movement and became the dominant ideology of an era.

===Progressive Era===

===Progressive Era===