It all started with Yellow kid. He was a newspaper cartoon that made everyone go nuts and buy newspapers with him in them.

There was just one problem. There were two newspaper companies in New York and they both wanted Yellow kid in their papers.

America owns Puerto Rico and Cuba. Cuba's mother land was Spain though and they wanted freedom from them.

Cuba was one of America's best trading partners. America was reaching in millions of dollars in trading with Cuba and was scared they'd fall revolting to Spain.

News reporters needed a way to inform the people about the happenings in Cuba so they used something called Yellow journalism

The yellow kid is an example of yellow journalism because it's a child in dress that is made to grab your attention.

Lots of people saw and heard that Cubans were fighting for their independence through mass media and people instantly wanted to help them because America also fought and got help from other countries to win their civil war.

The de Lôme letter was a letter that was sent to Cuba but accidentally ended up in the room of a publisher and it pretty much called the president a coward and a low politician and this obviously made Americans furious.