The Scopes Trial In the year 1859‚ Charles Darwin published his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection‚ or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. In this book‚ Charles Darwin explains that species need to evolve and adapt in order to survive. Natural selection is the process in which over time certain species and/or characteristic of certain species‚ will evolve and flourish while others will not. Darwin outlines the scientific theory of evolution;
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Date: School: Facilitator: 5.02 Scopes Trial Directions: Use the primary source material provided within the lesson to complete the chart below. Who supported the Butler Act? Who opposed the Butler Act? State of Tennessee Fundamentalists William Jennings Bryan (defended the state of TN during the trial) John Scopes American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Clarence Darrow (defended Scopes during the trial) Select one of the 5 sources that support the Butler
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Scopes Trial The Scopes Trial is a famous trial that had one main topic to focus on: evolution. This trial was brought on because John Scopes taught his students about evolution. The trial happened in 1925 in Tennessee. For creationists and evolutionists‚ this was a huge trial because it was the first major account of the teaching of evolution. Although this seems as a simple matter between creationists and evolutionists‚ there is more to meets the eye. The Scopes Trial was more complicated. The
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Scopes was a twenty four year old teacher at Rhea County High School in Dayton. He was described as a modest‚ friendly‚ helpful‚ and shy. There is a discrepancy as to why he agreed to participate in this trial. When Scopes agreed‚ he told how he had taught from Hunter’s Civic Biology‚ the Tennessee approved textbook that contained a chapter on the evolution of man and Darwin’s theory of natural selection. He also admitted that every other teacher taught from that book as well. * Scopes believed
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Scopes Monkey Trial Toriano Mcafee His/125 Rona Stuart Scopes Monkey Trial Is teaching evolution to children a negative thing? In 1925‚ there was a trial that took place that has been questioned whether or not the trial was real or staged made to look real. The name of the famous American case is The State of Tennessee vs. John Thomas Scopes‚ which had become commonly known as the Scopes Monkey Trial. A high school teacher‚ known as John Scopes
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The twentieth century Scopes trial may have started out as a simple debate between evolutionists and creationists‚ but quickly escalated to a debate of historic proportions. The 1920s were times of change in the United States‚ from women getting the right to vote to prohibition to changes in education‚ such as the Butler Act‚ which created unease and animosity throughout the country. The Butler Act of 1925 prohibited the teaching of evolution and any other theories that deny the story of the divine
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these have come even more into light and relevance. Today the world fights topics such as homosexual marriages and abortion. In 1925‚ these conflicting ideas were different but on a similar topic‚ evolution. In the case of Tennessee vs. John Scopes‚ “the Monkey Trial‚” the recent discoveries of Charles Darwin had brought into question‚ are we related to monkeys? Even though the Butler Act was not scientific and not based on truth‚ its purpose was to maintain the traditional lifestyles that had been practiced
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The focus of creationism versus evolution in the Scopes Monkey Trial shifts in its fictional representation written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. Inherit the Wind uses the Scopes Trial as a backdrop to project society into a town called Hillsboro. The singular perspective of this small town hinders its people’s freedom of thought and the town’s progress as a part of society. The people of Hillsboro base their actions on the idea that “faith is the most important thing” (Lawrence and Lee
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people involved in the trial. They included John Scopes‚ William Jennings Bryan‚ and Clarence Darrow. They each played a very important role in the trial. Born in Kentucky in 1900‚ John Scopes was a science teacher in Tennessee. He became famous for going on trial for teaching evolution in 1925. Scopes was part of an American Civil Liberties Union attempt to challenge the state law that prohibited the teaching of evolution.He served as the defendant in the case. Scopes’s trial was a national sensation
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The persecution of John T. Scopes was a very peculiar case‚ but it was also one of the most famous and important cases to ever appear in the Western world. The Scopes trial is often referred to‚ as Mencken says‚ “completely switching the direction the country seemed to obviously be going in at the time” (Mencken’s Trial Account). The Scopes trial is often misperceived in it’s message for the country‚ it is seen as a random trial against a science teacher that eventually led to an argument over evolution
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