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H-Was a famous American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher

A- The citizens

P-To let people know what is being taught in school and if it should be a law about it.

P- Was to show how strict the schools were about what should and should not be taught

Y-Its important because it effect of what we learn to this day.

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-Entrepreneurs sold everything from food to bibles to stuffed monkeys

-The first trial to ever be broadcast on radio

-It was reduced to a verbal contest between him and Bryan.

-When judge John Raulston refused to admit expert testimony on the validity of evolutionary theory, scopes lost.

-He was fined $100 and released

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-It was a confrontation between the forces of religious fundamentalism secular thought

-Was a trial over what should be taught in school

-Dominated headlines across the country

-Lasted just a week

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-John Scopes was charged with illegally teaching the theory of evolution

-William Jennings Bryan led a fundamentalist crusade to banish Darwin's theory of evolution

-H.L. Mencken covered the scopes trial & was also a three-time Democratic Candidate and a populist

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-Was taken to the Supreme Court

-The trial was a deliberately staged in order to attract publicity to the small town of Dayton Tennessee

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-To what should be taught in schools

-Important because it symbolized the conflict between conservatives & modernists

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-The Scopes Trial, Commonly referred to as the scopes Evolution Trial or the Scopes Money Trial began July 10th 1925.

-John Scopes was put on trial for teaching evolution in the classroom in violation of Tennessee Butler Law.