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This belief system inspired a U.S. soap magnate to fund a village designed by Arts and Crafts architect William Lightfoot Price in Arden, Delaware. “Do you see the cat?” is a coded question about belief in this ideology. The novel Jason Edwards: An Average Man, by Hamlin Garland, promotes this ideology. A quatrain beginning “Ye build! Ye build! But ye enter not in” by Lydia Sigourney opens a main text of this ideology. This non-Chinese ideology inspired mínshēng (“meen-SHUNG”), one of Sun Yat-sen’s Three Principles of the People. The United Labor Party got 31% of votes in a New York mayoral race with this ideology’s leader as its candidate. Elizabeth Magie designed a game to promote this belief system that inspired the board game Monopoly. For 10 points, what belief in a “single tax on land” is named for the 19th-century author of Progress and Poverty? ■END■
ANSWER: Georgism [or Georgist; accept any answer indicating the beliefs of Henry George; before “author,” accept answers indicating advocacy for a single tax on land value or collecting all tax revenue from land value; accept garden city movement before “cat”; prompt on United Labor Party before “United”; prompt on utopian socialism or utopian socialist; prompt on populism or populist; prompt on anti-landlord sentiment] (Henry George lost the 1886 New York mayoral election. Elizabeth Magie designed The Landlord’s Game.)
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