Muckrakers were a generation of reformist jounalists that operated during the Progressive era (1890s–1920s) and denounced, in the public sphere, politicians and institutions that were undertaking corrupt practices.
Muckrackers also wrote about the activities of large corporations and unfair scenarios occurring in the urban social systems, trying to raise awareness on issues such as urban poverty and income inequality, unsafe working conditions, prostitution or even child labor.
Because those that knew the trade and worked hard for the job often did not get the job unless they knew someone. And sometimes people in the spoil system did not know how do their job. It wasn't merit based. Like is someone worked their whole life to be a doctor and a high school graduate becomes a doctor because they knew a friend who could hire them.
False because the patricians were the noblemen and the rich people while the plebeians were the commoners
Hercules was not in the civil war
