THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
THE SCOPES TRIAL
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The Scottsboro trial
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the scopes monkey trial
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the Albert Fall trial
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the Sacco Vanzetti trial
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1925, John Scopes was convicted and fined $100 for teaching evolution in his Dayton, Tenn., classroom. The first highly publicized trial concerning the teaching of evolution, the Scopes trial also represents a dramatic clash between traditional and modern values in America of the 1920s.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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.