USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Scopes “monkey trial” was the moniker journalist H. L. Mencken applied to the 1925 prosecution of a criminal action brought by the state of Tennessee against high school teacher John T. Scopes for violating the state’s Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools.

Detailed explanation-2: -Rural Americans could not take part in the consumer culture or the new forms of leisure. How did the Scopes Trial illustrate the rural-urban split in the 1920s? The Scopes Trial represented a clash between rural fundamentalism and urban modernism. Fundamentalism and modernism clashed in the Scopes Trial.