USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Yellow Journalism played a significant role in garnering the support of the American people for the Spanish American War. The newspaper men knew that war would be good for business, so they sent reporters to Cuba. The reporters sent back articles that were sensationalized and were not always true.

Detailed explanation-2: -The long-held U.S. interest in ridding the Western Hemisphere of European colonial powers and American public outrage over brutal Spanish tactics created much sympathy for the Cuban revolutionaries.

Detailed explanation-3: -Yellow Journalism Reports of the Cuban Revolution reached Americans through newspapers. Two fiercely competitive newspapers, the New York Journal and the New York World, generated much of the American support for the rebels through their creatively dramatized stories of Spanish atrocities.

Detailed explanation-4: -Yellow journalism contributed to the U.S. declaring war by using “sensational stories that tugged at readers’ heartstrings to sell papers.” These papers blamed Spain for the sinking of the ship, even though they had no evidence to prove it. Spain declared war on April 24, 1898 and the U.S. declared war the next day.

Detailed explanation-5: -What was the main reason that yellow journalism strongly affected American attitudes about Cuba and the Spanish-American War? They blamed Spain for the explosion and called for the US to declare war. How did newspapers that used yellow journalism react when the USS Maine exploded in Cuba in 1898?