THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
THE SCOPES TRIAL
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the ABA
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the WMCA
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the DMV
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the ACLU
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Detailed explanation-1: -Scopes challenged Tennessee law forbidding the teaching of evolution. The case arose when, seeking to test the constitutional validity of the Butler Act, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) placed advertisements in Tennessee newspapers offering to pay the expenses of any teacher willing to challenge the law.
Detailed explanation-2: -The law was introduced by Tennessee House of Representatives member John Washington Butler, from whom the law got its name. It was enacted as Tennessee Code Annotated Title 49 (Education) Section 1922, having been signed into law by Tennessee governor Austin Peay.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Scopes Trial, also known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was the 1925 prosecution of science teacher John Scopes for teaching evolution in a Tennessee public school, which a recent bill had made illegal.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.