Scopes Trial

accept it a theory or a fact. The Scopes Trial in 1925 sheds some light on the attitudes that people once had towards evolution. Many decades ago, evolution was a very sensitive subject that was not allowed in the classrooms. The high school biology teacher John Scopes was “charged with illegally teaching the theory of evolution” (The monkey trial 1) and Scopes was found guilty and fined $100 , but the verdict was overturned on a technicality. The bizarre trial drew a lot of attention on the…

speeches about the trial, but then the judge decided he was no longer going to play along. At every attempt that Darrow tried to make he cut him off. Darrow called Bryan as a witness and had him end up admitting that purely literal interpretation was not possible. And it made Bryan look very absurd. So evolution clearly won, but it wasn't enough to help Scopes (Staff 3). On May 5, 1925 the jury found him guilty, and he was fined one hundred dollars, but it was later overturned and John Scopes…

August 3rd, 1900, the man who broke the law, John T. Scopes was involved in the “Monkey Trial.” Scopes was a young biology teacher at the time and went on trial for teaching his high school students the theory of evolution. In the play Inherit the Wind, the character Bertram Cates, parallels his real life counterpart, John T Scopes, through breaking the law, being on trial, and life similarities. John and Bertram both dealt with issues on trial. In the play, Bertram Cates was represented in 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 century. The passed law stated that any theory denying…

THE GREAT MONKEY TRIAL Thesis In Dayton, Tennessee, in 1925, as a substitute teacher, John Scopes illegally taught evolution. The ACLU was against the Butler Act (which most people in Tennessee believed in), that teaching evolution in public schools was wrong. They took a stand and partnered with Clarence Darrow, a famous defense attorney, to defend John Scopes who was convinced to stand. George Rappleyea, the manager of the Cumberland Coal and Iron Company in Dayton, agreed with the ACLU,…

The Scopes Trial (The State of Tennessee V John) was about the teaching of Evolution. Originally in the state of Tennessee it was illegal to teach the topic of Evolution in any state funded school. In the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, John Scopes was teaching Evolution and got caught doing so. At the end of the case he only got fined $100 dollars, which is kind of a joke, but gave the case the new name of The Scopes Monkey Trial. It got this name because most believe…

The 1920’s was the decade many raved about. Exciting new social changes and cultural differences began. During this decade there were clashes over alcohol, manners, morals, and over the rise of cities and evolution. It was all a matter of political and social change. Many people began moving into cities rather than living on farms. (History.com staff; “The Roaring Twenties”). Although many young people chose to celebrate and make the twenties roar, the 1920’s brought more conflict than…

fundamentalists believed the bible was literally true and without error. They even rejected Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Beliefs like this lead to laws against the teaching of evolution in public school. An example of the enactment of these laws is the Scopes “Monkey”…

John T. Scopes John Thomas Scopes was born 3 August, 1900, in Paducah Kentucky. At a young age, Scopes family moved to Illinois, first to Danville, then eventually settling in Salem. Johns father, Thomas, and mother, Mary, made sure to educate their five children as much as possible. They often made the children read literature and philosophy. Thomas Scopes, an Englishman, was said to have stepped off the boat in Galveston, TX with four books, including Darwin’s Origin of Species .Thomas Scopes…

the Scopes trial. A young teacher named John Scopes was tried for violating the Butler Act, a Tennessee state law that forbade the teaching evolution in public schools and universities. The theory of evolution was seen as a rejection of Biblical fundamentals and as a reason for the declining morality of the time. The trial was widely publicized, mainly because of the heated courtroom debates between Clarence Darrow who defended Scopes, and the prosecutor William Jennings Bryan. Although Scopes…