Mrs.+Roschke

The Automobile



The Evolution of the Automobile
==﻿﻿It's believed that the 1st steam powered automobile was created by Ferdinad Verbiest in 1672 while in China. The creation of the automobile allowed people to transport items and themselves in a convienent way without the use of animals. Owning a car became a status symbol for people in the U.S. In 1820 horse drawn buses were used to transport groups of people at one time. Overtime technology was used to transform automobiles into gasoline powered fast machines. During the Jim Crow era African Americans were forced to live under the laws of "seperate but equal" which forced them to ride in the back of public buses. ==

Connection to the 14th Amendment
===The invention of the automobile- specifically buses, is connected to the 14th amendment of the Constitution. This amendment was ratified on July 9th 1868. This amendment protect the rights of every citizen of America. It states that the government cannot create a law that takes away the rights and privileges of citizens. Also, no state can deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process - going to court. Therefore this amendment was meant to protect people from being forced to be seperated by their race and denied equal rigts, such as being able to sit anywhere you'd like on a city bus. The federal government had to step in a force states to follow the Constitution and end the laws of "seperate but equal". To help to uphold the 14th amendment right to to equal protection, an African American woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus for a white passanger. Her actions helped to end African Americans being pushed to the back of the bus, and to be treated as equals.===