The Importance Of Scopes Trial

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The Scopes Trial, a trial for history. Although it doesn’t sound like much, it was extremely important. The state of Tennessee passed a bill called the butler act. The butler act banned the teaching of evolution. This was viewed as an attack on the freedom of speech by a group of people called the ACLU, and the planned to end this “attack”. John T. Scopes was a school coach surprisingly, and he knew nothing of evolution. If you wish to know more about Scopes, click on the link here American Experience | Monkey Trial | People & Events. Scopes did fill in for the high school’s biology teacher, though. And the ACLU took note of this. A group of businessmen called him to the town gathering place Robinson’s drugstore and asked him if he would