1. The Roaring 20s: Conflicts Over Values

2. Conflicts Over Values The clash of urban and rural people values
Rural people represented traditional values
hard work, self-reliant, independent, religious
Urban people represented changes that threatened those values

3. The Rise of Fundamentalism
In changing times, many Americans turned to religion
Christianity criticized 1920s changes
Their beliefs were based on a literal interpretation of the Bible
-this is called “fundamentalism”
-this belief says that events happened in the Bible exactly like they are told

4. The Scopes Trial Fundamentalism conflicted with science
In the 1800s, Charles Darwin created the idea of evolution
organisms evolve from simpler life forms
said that humans may have evolved from an ape-like species
conflicted with Christian teachings that God created people
Fundamentalists worked hard to make sure evolution was not taught in schools

6. The Scopes Trial Tenn. 1925, a law forbade evolution to be taught
John Scopes, a teacher taught evolution anyway because it was in the TN textbook
He was taken to trial
Scope’s lawyer was Clarence Darrow
William Jennings Bryan led the prosecution
Trial not about whether or not Scopes broke the law (he obviously did)
It was about which was right, evolution or creation?!
Called the Scopes Monkey Trial

7. Bryan didn’t defend the Bible very well
The trial ended with John Scopes being convicted and fined $100
He never had to pay, and evolution continued to be taught