Answer: William Henry Seward wanted to add to the amount of land that the United States owned.
"Yellow Journalism" was largely responsible for swaying popular support of sensationalizing headlines and questionable facts.
Charlestown
About 10 p.m. had himself rowed across the Charles River, directly under the guns of an English ship. On the other side, associates tipped off by the lanterns provided him with a swift horse named Brown Beauty, and he set off for Lexington.