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Also known as: Monkey Trial, Scopes Monkey Trial
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Category: History & Society
Also called:
Scopes Monkey Trial
Date:
July 10, 1925 - July 21, 1925
Location:
Dayton
Tennessee
United States
Context:
evolution
Butler Act
Key People:
William Jennings Bryan
Clarence Darrow
Arthur Garfield Hays
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Scopes Trial, (July 10–21, 1925, Dayton, Tennessee, U.S.), highly publicized trial (known as the “Monkey Trial”) of a Dayton, Tennessee, high-school teacher, John T. Scopes, charged with violating state law by teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. The trial’s proceedings helped to bring the scientific evidence for evolution into the public sphere while also stoking a national debate over the veracity of evolution that continues to the present day. In March 1925 the Tennessee legislature had passed the Butler Act, which declared unlawful the teaching of any doctrine denying the divine creation of man as taught by the Bible. World ...(100 of 388 words)

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