Scopes in the 1920s for teaching human evolution to students and the evolving concept of freedom in the United States. Significance of the trial of Scopes; Details on American Civil Liberties Union's (ACLU) emerging concept of liberty; Information on the narrative of Scopes and its legacy....
Clarence Darrow’s Plan William Jennings Bryan on the Stand After the Scopes Trial Intelligent Design Inherit the Wind Sources 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...
The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial Even today, the subject of evolution is controversial in some schools. In the 1920s it was even more so. Evolution was considered so destructive to traditional, Christian values, that in 1925, the state of Tennessee passed the Butler Act. This law made it illegal...
Noun1.Scopes trial- a highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school; Scopes was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow; Scopes was convicted but the verdict was later reversed ...
WhatwastheScopesTrial? ItwasotherwiseknownastheMonkeyTrial. Itsettledthedebateof“shouldevolutionbe taughtinpublicschools.”Toseeifevolution wouldbethebestideatoteachkids,they decidedtoputateacherontrialwhotaught evolution. Introduction Americawaschanginginthe1920’s.Thevalues, ...
For several reasons, the Academy's response to the antievolution campaign took many months to develop and did not manifest itself formally until the annual meeting in November. This meeting came four months after the infamous Scopes Trial and resulted in a resolution calling for the legislature ...
Scopes was promptly cited for teaching evolution as a fact in his biology class, which set the stage for what was then termed “the trial of the century.” Press representatives from most of the nation’s major newspapers poured into Dayton and many filed daily reports of the proceedings. A...
Duringthe1920s,manynewphilosophieswerebornindifferentpeople'sheads.Freudisanexampleofaphilosopherwhogreatlyinfluencedpeopleofthe1920s,butthereweremanyotherswhobeganbelievingmoremodernideas,whowerecalledmodernists.AnexampleofmodernismandhowinfluentialitwaswastheScopesTrial.TheScopesTrialwas,inactuality,afightbetween...
the_trial_that_rocked_the_world_背景介绍剖析 TheTrialThatRockedtheWorld (MonkeyTrial)---byJohnScopes TheScopesTrial •ThisarticleiswrittenbyJohnThomasScopes(August3,1900–October21,1970).HeisateacherinDayton,Tennesseeattheageof24,andwaschargedonMay25,1925withviolatingTennessee'sButlerAct,whichprohibite...
The Scopes trial has long been interpreted through claims about science and religion and about individual rights and liberties. This article recovers a different debate about the trial's political history that emerged in the later 1920s ... T Arnold-Forster - 《Journal of American Studies》 被引...