THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
THE SCOPES TRIAL
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The Butler Act, a law that made sure that no one can have an unlicensed wild animal
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The Monkey act, you can’t have a monkey in your house
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The Butler Act, a law that made sure there was no teaching evolution in public schools
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The scope act, the act of scoping out a classroom
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Butler Act was a 1925 Tennessee law prohibiting public school teachers from denying the book of Genesis account of mankind’s origin. The law also prevented the teaching of the evolution of man from what it referred to as lower orders of animals in place of the Biblical account.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Education Act of 1944 was steered through Parliament by the Education Minister, R.A. Butler, and was followed by a similar Act for Scotland in 1945. The Act provided free secondary education for all pupils.
Detailed explanation-3: -Nonetheless, the ultimate result of the trial was pronounced and far-reaching: the Butler Act was never again enforced and over the next two years, laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution were defeated in 22 states.
Detailed explanation-4: -John Thomas Scopes (August 3, 1900 – October 21, 1970) was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925, with violating Tennessee’s Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee schools.