In 1969 protesters for American Indian independence occupied the island "Alcatraz" of the coast of San Fransisco. They did this mainly to bring attention to the unfair treatment of Natives by the US government.
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 answer is Christianity
