Explain the purpose of the "muckrakers."

i have no idea lets guess a

explanation:

john smith was the first englishman to sail around the world. francis bacon served as attorney general and lord chancellor of england. he took up aristotelian ideas, arguing for an empirical, inductive approach, known as the scientific method, which is the foundation of modern scientific inquiry.

the correct answer is: the fact that the anti-federalist papers were considered poorly written.