The Scope trial was about the decision to allow the teaching of evolution in schools.
John T. Raulston was the judge in the 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.
The Scopes Trial
The Scopes Trial, formally known as "The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes" took place in Dayton, Tennessee.
The nickname of the trial in "Inherit the Wind" is often referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial.
Because John Scopes was teaching about the evolution of humans from apes (monkeys)
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.
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
John Scopes for teaching Evolution
John Scopes for teaching Evolution
John scopes.
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