independence : the entire family—mother, father, and children.
Even grandparents—live in a small house and working S4
together to support each other. Anyone understood the life S5
and death importance of family corporation and hard work.
Although most people in the United states no longer
live on farms, but the ideal of home ownership is just as S6
strong in the twentieth century, as it was in the nineteenth.
When U.S. soldiers came home before World War II for S7
example, they dreamed of buying houses and starting
families. But there was a tremendous boom in the home S8
building. The new house, typically in the suburbs,were
often small and more or less identical, but it satisfied S9
a deep need. Many regarded the single-family









