Sure enough, he was arrested and put on trial. An image shows John Scopes. An image shows a newspaper's front page. TIM: It represented a larger debate going on at the time in the U.
TIM: Traditionalists worried that modern technology and ideas were undermining people's morals, while those who embraced modernity embraced change, arguing that traditional morals were responsible for wars, slavery, and other social problems.
An animation illustrates a comparison of traditionalism, symbolized by a top hat, a horse and carriage, and a Bible, with modernity, symbolized by a plane, a car, and other machinery.
TIM: Proponents of modernity accepted the theory of evolution, but traditionalists, especially fundamentalists, were against it. They oppose evolution because it contradicts the Christian story of creation.
Images compare the evolution from ancestral monkey to human with the divine origin of humans as presented in the Bible. William Jennings Bryan, a famous orator and three-time presidential candidate, represented the state. An image shows William Jennings Bryan. TIM: The trial began in July of nineteen twenty-five. Reporters and spectators swarmed the town to see the trial of the century.
An animation shows a crowded downtown area. There is a lemonade stand and someone is handing out literature for the Anti-Evolution League. A man walks a monkey on a leash. TIM: The facts of the case were sort of beside the point. John Scopes had broken the law. The defense wanted to lose the case and appeal it all the way to the U. Supreme Court, which they hoped would find the Butler Act unconstitutional. Constitution calls for a separation between church and state, so public schools aren't supposed to teach religious explanations for things in a science course.
Highlighted text reads: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. Among the many ironies at the Scopes trial, two surrounded the textbook at the center of the controversy. First, Tennessee mandated that George W. Yet Bryan volunteered to join the prosecution team because he opposed the theory of evolution for its association with eugenics and with social Darwinism.
Darrow was a legendary lawyer. Labor leaders Eugene V. Debs and William D. Loeb known more commonly as Leopold and Loeb , and Henry Sweet, a Detroit African American accused of murder in a civil rights upheaval, numbered among his most well-known clients. The trial began on July 10, The atmosphere was circus-like.
More than six hundred spectators shoehorned themselves into the courtroom. The presiding judge, John T. Raulston, had proposed holding the trial outdoors in a tent that would accommodate twenty thousand. Reporters assembled from as far away as London and Hong Kong. Mencken chronicled the trial for the Baltimore Sun. In the case Scopes www. The issues evolution versus creation in the public schools , the politics individual liberty versus populist democracy , the actors William Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow, and H.
Mencken, among others , and the setting a small, struggling town in southeastern Tennes. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. The trial was deliberately staged in order to. Alleged is accurate to the history and trial transcript of the Scopes Monkey Trial, unlike Hollywood's previous Inherit the Wind attempt.
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