Scopes+Trial

On March 13, 1925 Tennessee passed a law prohibiting the teaching of evolution in schools. If you were teaching evolution illegally you would be fined 100.00 dollars and no more than 500.00. People felt strongly about the law and whether it conflicted with religion. John Scopes was a High School biology teacher. He was accused of violating Tennessee’s Anti-Evolution act. John Scopes was found guilty and was fined 100.00 dollars. The trail appealed and was then taken to the Tennessee supreme court, which was then reversed and dismissed. Evolution is now excepted in society because of the Scopes trial.Before the trial 15 states had the anti- evolution law and after the scopes trail only two states remained with it. The scopes trial was important because with out it more states would still have the anti-evolution law. John scopes changed the way people thought about evolution. The scopes trail had long and short term effects on schools and what teachers taught.



Before the scopes trial in Dayton Tennessee the government did not want the schools to teach the evolution theory because they thought it would contradict with religion. People didn’t want to be a part of the idea that they came from apes.The government of Dayton Tennessee thought that the evolution was connected with religion and apes and how the evolution theory is connected on how apes were seen as a tip of form common ancestor. They looked at religion and how people were made by god`s creation as one man not by evolution or the history of apes. People had their own thoughts on the law and how they looked at it if they agreed with the law or they had a different way of thinking how evolution should be looked at.

The scopes trial was contradicting because both the lawyers had to different perspectives on the evolution theory. They thought by teaching evolution in class rooms it would end civilization. They believed that civilization was depending on this trial. After the trial it put a gap between American religion.It was divided into two parts Biblical and scientific. People saw the gap between education and religion, and this put a strain on both the education system and the people involved.

Work Cited

Linder, D. (2000, July 10). //http://law2.umkc.edu///. Retrieved from http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/evolut.htm

Pierce, J. K. (2006, June 12). //Historynet.com//. Retrieved from http://www.historynet.com/scopes-trial.htm

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