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They went on the Oregon Trail.
In a general sense, media such as radios and newspapers greatly "connected" the American public and made people focus on the same issues, since a large majority of the population was "tuning in" to the same broadcasts and reading the same papers.
Bag check and shoe check and Having to go through a metal detector and being very precautious that it won't happen also the piolet locking the door so no one is able to get in
