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Who was on trial in the scopes monkey trial?
John T. Raulston was the judge in the Scopes trial.
What was the causes and results of the john scopes trail?
Scopes was fined and the law was upheld
What was john t scopes found guilty of doing in Tennessee in 1925?
In the John T. Scopes Monkey Trial, a school teacher, Scopes, was put on trial for violating Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in school. Clarence Darrow did a good job of defending Scopes and it became central to the larger debate on evolution versus creationism. Some would contend that Darrow humiliated the prosecution William Jennings Bryan -- a Democratic presidential candidate -- in his arguments asserting theh validity of evolutionary theory. Scopes did end up being found guilty, but he was only fined in the end, and it was a noteworthy installment in the battle for evolutionary theory.
What did the Tennessee court decide in the scopes trial?
Scopes broke the law by teaching evolution.
Who is John scopes?
John Thomas Scopes was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925 for violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools. He was tried in a case known as the Scopes Trial.
