jan 13, 1925 - Scopes Trial (1925)

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Also called the “Monkey Trial." It was John Scopes’s teaching of evolution in his biology classroom in violation of a Tennessee law; it pitted the Bible, fundamentalism, and William Jennings Bryan against evolution, modernism, and Clarence Darrow. Scopes was convicted, but fundamentalism was damaged and discouraged by the trial.

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