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.
West Virginia?
If not the Mississippi river
South wanted slavery, rebellions because of Lincoln becoming president, John Brown's and other abolitionists actions, the consequences caused by Compromise of 1850, the consequences of the Fugitive Slave Act, and the controversy and Bleeding Kansas.
Answer: reforms that broke the power of party bosses
Explanation:
