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“We have now learned that animal forms may be arranged so as to begin with the simple one-celled forms and culminate with a group which includes man himself.” -Civic Biology as read to his class by John T. Scopes

4 SCOPES TRIAL John Scopes: taught the idea of evolution in a school in Tennessee in 1925= illegal ACLU: Said they would pay court costs for anyone who challenged the Tennessee law William Jennings Bryan: Former lawyer, Democratic presidential candidate, prosecuted Scopes Clarence Darrow: Lawyer from many trials including Pullman workers strike, defended Scopes

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6 OUTCOME Scopes was found guilty and fined $100
Darrow get Bryan to admit, as a self-proclaimed biblical expert, that the earth was not created in six twenty four hour days Bryan dies 5 days after trial Tennessee law is not changed until 1967


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