Read this sentence from the passage. In the United States during the early 1900s, most people thought of automobiles as a passing fad. How does this sentence support the author's purpose in writing the passage? A. It explains why no one had attempted a long-distance automobile trip before Jackson and Crocker. B. It points out how Jackson and Crocker's attitudes changed during their trans-U. S. automobile trip. C. It suggests that most U. S. citizens were violently opposed to Jackson and Crocker's road trip. D. It condemns the narrow-minded attitudes prevalent in the United States in the early twentieth century.