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John T. Scopes, a Biology teacher, was tried for teaching Darwinism in a Tennessee public school--which was at the time, illegal.

Scopes trial was a 1925 case that debated by William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow. Scopes was tried to challenged the Tennessee law by teaching the Evolution. Darrow believed in free speech, and Bryan believed in fundamentalism. This trial took place in Tennessee.

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