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10 Cards in this Set
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traditional Christian beliefs, including that the Bible is literally true
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fundamentalism
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Why did Christian fundamentalist oppose the teaching of evolution?
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Evolution contradicted the story of creation in the Bible, that the world was created in six days about 4,000 BC
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Places that illegally sold alcohol during the Prohibition
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speakeasies
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Person who supplied alcohol illegally during Prohibition
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bootlegger
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1925 court case which debated the issue of teaching evolution in public schools
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Scopes trial
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Who were the people involved in the Scopes trial?
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Clarence Darrow (defense lawyer), William Jennings Bryan (prosecuting lawyer), and John T. Scopes (defendant, science teacher)
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What was the outcome of the Scopes trial?
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Scopes was found guilty and fined $100, but the trial was widely seen as a triumph of science over fundamentalism.
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What cultural conflicts did Prohibition highlight?
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Differences between urban and moral values; speakeasies were common in cities. City people were willing to break the law to drink alcohol; rural people mostly kept the law.
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What divisions in American society did the Scopes trial reflect?
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The division between fundamentalist, traditional values and modern scientific belief.
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Describe the racial conflicts of the 1920s.
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Mob violence between African Americans and whites; lynchings; and the revival of the Ku Klux Klan
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