What is the Scopes trial formally known as?
Q: What is the Scopes trial formally known as?
A: The Scopes trial is formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes.
Q: What was the purpose of the trial?
A: The purpose of the trial was to attract publicity to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, where it was held.
Q: Who were William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow?
A: William Jennings Bryan was a three-time presidential candidate who argued for the prosecution in the Scopes trial, while Clarence Darrow was a famed defense attorney who spoke for Scopes.
Q: What did Tennessee's Butler Act make unlawful?
A: Tennessee's Butler Act made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.
Q: How did John Scopes incriminate himself?
A: John Scopes purposely incriminated himself so that he could be found guilty and serve as a defendant in order for the case to have more attention from national reporters.
Q: What controversy did this case bring up?
A: This case brought up the Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy which set "Modernists", who said evolution was not inconsistent with religion, against Fundamentalists, who said the word of God as revealed in the Bible took priority over all human knowledge.
Q: When was Tennessee's Butler Act repealed?
A: Tennessee's Butler Act was not repealed until 1967.
