Bryan Cranston

Instead, the Democrats nominated a strong supporter of silver, William Jennings Bryan. When the Populists held a convention in St. Louis, they decided to support Bryan as well. Catholic immigrants and other city dwellers did not care for the silver issue or Bryan’s speaking style. The Republicans were determined to beat the Democrats and elected William McKinley, the governor…

The Scopes Trial  John Scopes was a teacher in Dayton, TN, beginning around 1924. He is best known for the controversy that he caused over teaching one very touchy subject to his students, Evolution. In 1925, Tennessee passed the Butler Act which made it illegal for any teacher in a public school "to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.” John Scopes was not a…

The Monumental trial of john peter Zenger took place on the historic site where Federal Hall National Memorial Now Stands. The case inspired the entire city and helped Further the cause for freedom that led to revolution, forty years later the John Peter Zenger trial would lead the way for the First Amendment to the constitution of the united states of America. The Man Generally perceived to be the villain of the Zenger affair William Cosby was the guy who was rewarded 50 pounds for the…

John Scopes who is a teacher was found guilty for teaching evolution, so he was forced to be in a case. Bryan heard of this case and decided to contribute to the prosecution of Scopes. Clarence Darrow who is an intermediate lawyer was the defender of Scopes in the case. This case was called The Scopes Monkey Trial, and became a big controversy in the 18th…

Arizona. Germany just wanted to keep us neutral so that they could win the war. The US had to send so many soldiers out to be in this war, and it was strain on the government. A song called “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier” by lyricist Alfred Bryan and Composer Al Piantados stated it perfectly, “Ten million soldiers to the war have gone, Who may never return again. Ten million mothers’ hearts must break,” it goes on to say “Who dares to put a musket on his shoulder, To shoot some other…

Taft had a long and extensive career path before he became president of the United States. He attended law school in his hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio after graduating high school. He easily passed certification to be a lawyer in 1880, and a few months later he was appointed as the assistant prosecutor of Hamilton County. 2 years later the president appointed him to the position of Collector of Internal Revenue in Ohio’s first district. In 1887 Taft was appointed to be a judge for Cincinnati by…

men without distinction of party and in every section of the country” (New York Daily Tribune, 1896). The election of 1896, the election against the “Gilded Age Republican” (Kelly, 2003) William McKinley and the Populist candidate William Jennings Bryan. The era of Republicans of using the Civil War to mobilize Union veterans was slowly coming to an end due to “the defeat in Congress of the Force Bill, legislation designed to use Federal police power to enforce black suffrage in the South”…

Scopes would teach the class. Knowing he would be arrested Scopes taught the class and set into action one of the most important trials in American history. Scopes was arrested for violating the Butler Law. At the resulting trial William Jennings Bryan acted as prosecutor. World famous criminal defense lawyer Clarence Darrow…

Christian lifestyle, and interpreting the Bible as a literal, historical piece of writing. In the monkey trial of 1925, defense attorney Clarence Darrow interrogated William Jennings Bryan, the democratic politician of Nebraska, for his credence on whether everything in the Bible “should be literally interpreted”; to which Bryan replied that he believed “everything in the bible accepted as it is given there.”…

Hello! I'm Caitlin Hoyng, a student Northmont High School, and I believe, as you do, that Dayton should join other countries and cities in the task of accepting refugees from Syria. Before I begin, I'd like to thank you for taking the time to read the letters of local students. As mayor of the Dayton, you must have countless responsibilities to juggle, so I appreciate the fact that you still designate time for smaller tasks, as well. In my German class, we've been researching the Syrian refugee…