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John Thomas Scopes was a high school biology teacher who was accused of teaching evolution in 1925. In the famous Scopes Trail he was found guilty, but the verdict was overturned on a technicality. The trial represents the fight between the creation vs. evolution, led by the fundamentalists and the creationists.
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
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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.
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John T. Raulston was the judge in the Scopes trial.
John Thomas Scopes was a high school biology teacher who was accused of teaching evolution in 1925. In the famous Scopes Trail he was found guilty, but the verdict was overturned on a technicality. The trial represents the fight between the creation vs. evolution, led by the fundamentalists and the creationists.
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)
Scopes was declared guilty, but people felt the law violated the Constitution. Scopes was fined and the law was upheld.
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
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