The Scopes trial took place in Tennessee centered around a teacher named John Scopes, who was arrested for violating a state law that prohibited the teaching of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. The trial immediately attracted two different groups to the case, the Fundamentalist Christians and the religious modernists. The tension was already growing between these two trending groups in America and the Scopes trial was one of the cases that brought this tension to the spotlight. During this time period, the division between these two groups was growing more and more due to difference in their beliefs and definition of freedom. The Fundamentalist Christians were the traditional christians. Majority of them were found in rural areas of
