1) “Much of the Suburban expansion would not have occurred had not federal highway construction provided access to rural land for development” (Chudacoff 220). I disagree with this statement. I think the suburban expansion would not have occurred had there not been any help from the government to make the land more affordable: “the GI Bill, made low-interest home loans available to military veterans. These, combined with FHA mortgage insurance, helped subsidize suburban real estate development” (Chudacoff 219). This caused there to be, “happy neighborhoods of single-family homes where breadwinner fathers and home-maker mothers found personal satisfaction in family life and consumerism” (Chudacoff 220.) In other words, the American dream of owning a house (and maybe a car) was all possible because the federal government made it possible for people to achieve it.
2) Construstions on the highway, as well as the Interstate Highway Act of 1956 caused more progressions to occur because people felt they are not too far from the city life.
3) Retail development in the suburban areas caused more people to feel comfortable living in the suburbs. Retails found the land to be cheap as well as gain customers that they knew will be loyal to their products because the customers had no other place to go. The customers liked having retails there so they had shops close by for them to conveniently purchase.
4) Racism also helped there to be more population in the Suburbs. Because the whites did not want to mix with the blacks, every time the blacks progressed, the whites would move away and own different part of land, causing there to be an expansion.
5) City stores began to loose customers and the suburban outlets began to gain customers.
(Source: Building Levittown)