Answer: Spanish crown in its American possessions and thus energize the empire.
Explanation:
The answer you are looking for is D.) articles that exaggerated or manipulated events to shock readers.
For example lets say there was a car crash and the people had minor injuries in your town. Later you see on the morning paper that the people suffered terribly from the crash that they had to be flown to a hospital. That is yellow journalism because the event is exaggerated.
So The answers could be Maine.
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws passed where white southerners reasserted their dominance by denying African Americans basic social, economic, and civil rights. Examples school segagration, right to vote, and interracial marriage