How did the scopes monkey trial decision affect schools in America?

Answer 1

The decision brought light to the topic of teaching evolution in schools. Since the concept of evolution conflicts with most, if not all, religions, the trial shed light about such an issue.

Still, regarding the teaching of evolution in schools, the trial essentially had no affect.

In 1925, the State of Tennessee passed the Butler Actwhich forbade the teaching in public schools that mankind evolved from lower creatures or any other theory that countered idea of divine creation of man.

The John Scopes trial in 1925 was designed to test the constitutionality of that law. Scopes received a guilty verdict and was fined $100 but the conviction was overturned due to a technicality on appeal to the state Supreme Court and the case dismissed, which barred it from being appealed further.

As a result, the Butler Act remained law and evolution was not taught in public schools for nearly 40 more years. Afterward, two other states, Arkansas and Mississippi, passed legislation similar to Tennessee's.

So, the trial failed to have the Butler Act declared unconstitutional and prevented the official teaching of human evolution in schools for another 40 years until 1967 when Tennessee repealed it. It was the following year, 1968, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Epperson v. Arkansas that such laws were unconstitutional because they violated the Establishment clause of the First Amendment.

So, while the trial did make headlines about a perceived battle between science and religion, the trial did not lead to any changed in schools.

Answer 2

by winning the trial of 1924 and schools can now eat