Question

How did journalists use yellow journalism to encourage the United States to go to war with Spain? Check all that apply.

by writing sensational headlines
by working undercover to expose Spanish misdoings
by deeply exploring only part of the US-Spain relationship
by relying mostly on unnamed sources
by printing rumors as if they were facts

Answer 1

The correct answers are A) by writing sensational headlines. D) by relying mostly on unnamed sources. E) by printing rumors as if they were facts.

Journalists used yellow journalism to encourage the United States to go to war with Spain in the following ways: by writing sensational headlines, by relying mostly on unnamed sources, and by printing rumors as if they were facts.

The Cuban movement of Independence was one of the factors that provoked the Spanish-America War of 1898. The Spanish Army repression of the Cuban rebellion was covered by sensationalists or yellow Journalists in the newspapers of the United States, causing the people´s reaction and indignity, and the support for the Cubans. On April 24, 1898, Spain declared war on the United States. The US did the same the next day.