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The Scopes Trial was about teaching the theory of evolution in public schools.
Tennessee passed the Butler Act in 1925, which prohibited the teaching of any theory that denied the biblical account of creation, including evolution. This led to the famous Scopes Monkey Trial, where a high school teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution.
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Dayton, Tennessee was the place and 1925 the year. Bryan spoke for the prosecution in the famous Scopes "Monkey' trial which tried a school teacher in Tennessee for teaching the theory of evolution.
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In 1925, John Scopes was prosecuted for teaching the theory of evolution in a public school classroom. Which person served as John Scopes' defense lawyer at the famous Scopes trial?
The case is known as the Scopes Trial, where John Scopes, a high school teacher, was charged with violating the law by teaching evolution. The trial brought attention to the clash between religion and science in American education.
John Scopes in 1925, the "Monkey Trial"
the butler act in 1925
In 1925, John T. Scopes, a substitute biology teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, was tried and convicted on the charge of teaching evolutionary theory, in violation of state law (the Butler Act, which forbad public school instructors from teaching "any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of Man as taught in the Bible, and [teaches] instead that man had descended from a lower order of animals"). The trial crystallized several conflicts stemming from the interaction of American heritage with modern ideas and theories. Most important of these was a perceived conflict between the Christian faith, rooted in the teachings of the Bible, and the tenets of Darwinist evolutionary theory.
The Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925, also known as the State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, involved the teaching of evolution in schools. John Scopes, a high school teacher, was charged with violating a state law that prohibited teaching evolution in public schools. The trial gained national attention as it pitted creationism against the theory of evolution.