Explanation:
to cross the Continental Divide
In the mid-1830s Narcissa Whitman and Eliza Spalding became the first white women to cross the Continental Divide when they accompanied their husbands—Marcus Whitman and Henry Harmon Spalding—on a Congregationalist mission in the Northwest.
The newly formed U.S. wanted to make the declaration the opposite of what Great Britain did. The revolutionary war took place BECAUSE of that. So they fought for lower taxes, so they get lower taxes.
