The Scopes Monkey Trial by Tamy Alveal

When

alvealtamara — 2014-11-12 01:20:36 UTC

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

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

alvealtamara — 2014-11-12 01:23:00 UTC

-To what should be taught in schools

-Important because it symbolized the conflict between conservatives & modernists

alvealtamara — 2014-11-12 01:24:05 UTC

-Was taken to the Supreme Court

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

alvealtamara — 2014-11-12 01:25:00 UTC

-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

alvealtamara — 2014-11-12 01:26:14 UTC

-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

alvealtamara — 2014-11-12 01:27:17 UTC

-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

alvealtamara — 2014-11-12 01:44:20 UTC

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.