Scopes Trial
After investigating the famous Sacco & Vanzetti case of the 1920s, its time to look at another famous case. The Scopes Trial dealt with education and was highly controversial. Your task is to open the Scopes Trial Home Page below and answer the following questions about the trial. These question may be answer in Google Docs (be sure to share it with me) or on a piece of paper. As you answer the various questions, keep this overall question in mind: How does the Scopes Trial show the conflict between an older. traditional America and a newer, modern America?
Questions to Investigate
Use the "Anti Evolution Statute" page
1. What was the Butler Act?
2. Why do you think people in Tennessee supported this act?
Use the "Observer's Account" and "Mencken's Trial Account" for the following questions:
3. How do these individuals describe Dayton during the trial?
4. How do they describe the court room and trial?
5. Why do you think H.L. Mencken said, "Darrow has lost this case. It was lost long before he came to Dayton."?
Use the "Biographies of Key Figures" page for the following questions:
6. Who was John T. Scopes?
7. Who was Clarence Darrow?
8. Who was William Jennings Bryan?
Use the "Dayton, Tennessee" page for the following questions:
9. What does the author mean "there were two Dayton, Tennessees in 1925?"
Use the "Trial of the Century" page for the following questions:
10. Why does the author believe the Scopes Trial was the biggest trial of the century?
11. Do you agree or disagree with the author? Explain your reasons.
Use the "Scopes Trial: An Introduction" page for the following questions:
12. What was the Scopes Trial really about?
Once you have finished all of these questions, please respond to the overall prompt in a paragraph:
How does the Scopes Trial show the conflict between an older, traditional America and a newer, modern America?
1. What was the Butler Act?
2. Why do you think people in Tennessee supported this act?
Use the "Observer's Account" and "Mencken's Trial Account" for the following questions:
3. How do these individuals describe Dayton during the trial?
4. How do they describe the court room and trial?
5. Why do you think H.L. Mencken said, "Darrow has lost this case. It was lost long before he came to Dayton."?
Use the "Biographies of Key Figures" page for the following questions:
6. Who was John T. Scopes?
7. Who was Clarence Darrow?
8. Who was William Jennings Bryan?
Use the "Dayton, Tennessee" page for the following questions:
9. What does the author mean "there were two Dayton, Tennessees in 1925?"
Use the "Trial of the Century" page for the following questions:
10. Why does the author believe the Scopes Trial was the biggest trial of the century?
11. Do you agree or disagree with the author? Explain your reasons.
Use the "Scopes Trial: An Introduction" page for the following questions:
12. What was the Scopes Trial really about?
Once you have finished all of these questions, please respond to the overall prompt in a paragraph:
How does the Scopes Trial show the conflict between an older, traditional America and a newer, modern America?