importance for many people.
This ideal is a vital part of the American dream. This dream,
dramatized in the history of nineteenth-century European settlers of the
American West, was to find a piece of place, build a house for one's S2.________
family, and started a farm. These small households were portraits of S3.________
independence: the entire family--mother, father, children, even
grandparents—live in a small house and working together to support S4.________
each other. Anyone understood the life and death importance of family S5.________
cooperation and hard work.
Although most people in the United States no longer live on
farms, but the ideal of home ownership is just as strong in the twentieth S6.________
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 S8.________
was a tremendous boom in home building. The new houses, typically
in the suburbs, were often small and more or less identical, but it S9.________
satisfied a deep need. Many regarded the single-family house the basis of S10.________
their way of life.
