There was a great deal of interest in the Scopes trial which took place in Tennessee in 1925. The trial dealt with the right to teach evolution in the public schools. Scopes was convicted on this charge and fined, but there was much ridicule towards the state for passing the law in the first place. The trial was a great embarrassment to the state and probably kept other fundamentalist states from passing similar laws.
The people who believed in Darwinism and thought it was important for people to know, but it was illegal to teach thus creating the case Scopes trial
Legally, William Jennings Bryan won the Scopes trial. But the long-term effect of the Scopes trial was the end of the fundamentalist movement and the rise of modernism and urban values such as evolution and science over religion.
John T. Raulston was the judge in the Scopes trial.
At the time of the Scopes Trial, the attitude toward evolutionary theory was changing in America. In time, evolution became the primary theory taught in schools. That was not the case at the time of the trial.
The Scopes Trial, formally known as "The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes" took place in Dayton, Tennessee.
Because John Scopes was teaching about the evolution of humans from apes (monkeys)
In 1925, John Scopes, a high school science teacher, intentionally violated the State's Butler Act, which was a law put into effect to keep teachers from teaching about evolution in public schools. The trial was a publicity stunt.
The Scopes trial refers to the "Scopes-Monkey" trial in which a high school Science teacher in Tennessee violated the Butler Act that made it unlawful to teach evolution in schools. He was found guilty.
John Scopes for teaching Evolution
John Scopes for teaching Evolution
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