The Scopes Trial
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 00:45:39
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 3 pages (790 words)
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 3 pages (790 words)
The Scopes Trial
Considered a "Duel to the Death" by the people involved, the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial did not deliver a final verdict on the then controversial issue of evolution being taught in public schools. Jeffrey Moran identifies the 1920's evolutionary debate as "a battle within a much larger cultural war further complicated by urbanism and regionalist tensions between the North and South" (3). One of the stated points of the book is to "clear away …
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…of that time.
Works Cited:
1.<Tab/>Edwards, Mark "Rethinking the Failure of Fundamentalist Political Antievolution After 1925," Journal of History, vol: 32 iss: 3 p. 89, 2000
2.<Tab/>Moran, Jeffrey P. The Scopes Trial: A Brief History with Documents. Bedford/St. Martins, Boston 2002
3.<Tab/>Moran, Jeffrey "The Scopes Trial and Southern Fundamentalism in Black and White: Race, Region, and Religion." The Journal of Southern History, vol: 70 iss: 1 p. 99
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